On 8 July 2013 14:16, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > On 08.07.2013, at 15:08, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On 8 July 2013 13:59, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: >>> On 08.07.2013, at 14:57, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>> On 27.06.2013, at 15:04, Peter Maydell wrote: >>>>> The basic idea is that the board instantiates some transports, >>>> >>>> I really dislike that idea. Couldn't you also create a new >>>> bus for your vexpress platform and add a virtio-mmio-vexpress >>>> device that automatically allocates an interrupt from the main >>>> PIC on instantiation? That way you could create transports >>>> using -device. >> >> This doesn't seem to gain anything except that the user has >> to use -device twice rather than once. > > Yes, it does. You can have other devices than just virtio ones > on those IRQ lines. Assigned devices for example.
Now I'm completely confused. Why would assigned devices have anything to do with this? Can you explain in more detail, because I don't really see what you're suggesting? >> As far as I know there's no way to find out at board >> construction how many virtio devices you might want. > > Hence you shouldn't create them :). You've got to create them sometime... -- PMM
