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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 08/15] i440fx: print an error message if user tri


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 08/15] i440fx: print an error message if user tries to enable iommu
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:00:38 +0100
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"Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:38:03PM -0500, Bandan Das wrote:
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > From: Bandan Das <address@hidden>
>> >
>> > There's no indication of any sort that i440fx doesn't support
>> > "iommu=on"
>> 
>> Oh, Markus quite didn't like this approach because this is
>> true for all other machines too. Anyway, I will keep in
>> mind to take care of this when I post a generic patch. 
>
> Do you think I should revert this one then?

The patch isn't wrong, it merely addresses only one special case of a
generic issue.  Probably the most important case in practice.  If I
understood Bandan correctly, he intended to drop this patch and work on
a general solution.  As far as I'm concerned, you can keep this patch if
dropping it is inconvenient.



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