Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qdev: add -pcidevice command line option.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 06/29/09 23:02, Markus Armbruster wrote:

> Why limit this to PCI devices?

Good question.  I think we can go straight for a -device option.

> The device name indirectly specifies the
> bus type.  Parameter addr then specifies bus instance and device address
> on the bus, in a bus-specific syntax.  Of course, it's perfectly fine to
> implement only PCI initially, but I'd rather not encode that restriction
> in the option name :)

usb will be easy as well once my patches are in.

> To extend this to devices that need configuration: what about
> interpreting additional parameters as qdev properties?  Oh, there's a
> TODO in pci_device_add() that suggests exactly that.

cheers,
  Gerd