[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] pseries: Implement automatic PAPR VIO address allocation

2012-05-01 Thread Alexander Graf
From: David Gibson PAPR virtual IO (VIO) devices require a unique, but otherwise arbitrary, "address" used as a token to the hypercalls which manipulate them. Currently the pseries machine code does an ok job of allocating these addresses when the legacy -net nic / -serial and so forth options a

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] pseries: Implement automatic PAPR VIO address allocation

2012-05-01 Thread Alexander Graf
From: David Gibson PAPR virtual IO (VIO) devices require a unique, but otherwise arbitrary, "address" used as a token to the hypercalls which manipulate them. Currently the pseries machine code does an ok job of allocating these addresses when the legacy -net nic / -serial and so forth options a