* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 04:10 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> >* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote:
> >>An fd as a qdev property seems like a bad idea to me.
> >What is your concern?
> 
> qdev properties are supposed to represent device tunables.  A file
> descriptor is not a tunable.

It tunes which config file to read from ;-)

> It's like passing the tap device fd via qdev to an e1000.
> 
> >>I'm not sure I have a better suggestion though.
> >Anything else requires inventing some new commandline options and monitor
> >comnmands (-pcidevice anyone? ;-).  I'm not sure the benefit, esp with
> >hopes of moving to uio.
> 
> Yeah, I think device passthrough is going to require new command
> line syntax to be more qemu friendly...

Right, and I think we should do that in the context of redoing the
infrastructure.  What do you think?

thanks,
-chris
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