[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/2] conf: add xml element devices/pvpanic

[Eric Blake]

On 12/04/2013 08:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> Dan, do you have any thoughts on the best representation to use?  Or is
>> Hu's original proposal of:
>>
>>   <pvpanic ioport='0x505'/>
> 
> I'm not a fan of doing a special case attribute for 'ioport' - this is
> something something that should be part of an <address> element, since
> ioport numbers are a generic addressing concept for many devices.
> eg ISA serial / parallel ports have IRQ / IO ports IIUC.

So something more like:

  <pvpanic>
    <address type='ioport' slot='0x505'/>
  </pvpanic>

and introducing a new type='ioport' namespace into the <address> XML
since it is yet another numbering system for guest-visible addressing?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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