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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [v7][PATCH 06/16] hvmloader/pci: skip reserved
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:27:49 +0100
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>>> On 15.07.15 at 13:05, <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> This patch series as a whole represents a lot of work and a lot of
> tangible improvements to the situation; and (unless the situation has
> changed) it's almost entirely acked apart from the MMIO placement
> part.  If there is a simple way that we can change hvmloader so that
> most (or even many) VM/device combinations work properly for the 4.6
> release, then I think it's worth considering.

And I think the simplest way is to replace the allocation mechanism
as outlined rather than trying to make the current model cope with
the new requirement.

Jan