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Message-ID: <CAErSpo7GFN2e3GOzb_+4oAZAQiUQZUV+ijQDKvQzVinBbTNvFA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:19:16 -0700
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	eiichiro.oiwa.nm@...achi.com
Cc:	Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	"qemu-devel@...gnu.org" <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>
Subject: Re: In "pci_fixup_video" check if this is or should be the primary
 video d

[+cc Michael, Jesse, David, qemu-devel]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:58 PM,  <eiichiro.oiwa.nm@...achi.com> wrote:
> I suggest you should not break the PCI specification, as a developer of proprietary
> hypervisor, but I think your patch is no problem.
> Your PCI structure is specialized structure for your virtual machine.
> Maybe, your virtual machine will be causing another problem on Linux or other kernels
> because of breaking the PCI specification.

I assume you think qemu is breaking the PCI spec.  What exactly do you
think is broken?  Please give specific references to the spec.  This
conversation is pretty fragmented, and I came in late, so I apologize
if I missed this.

Bjorn
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