Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/3] README: document that qemu-trad wants libpci

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 26.03.18 at 15:22, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/26/18 5:18 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 25.03.18 at 16:26, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> qemu-traditional wants libpci from pciutils for supporting PCI
>>> passthrough.
>> 
>> Iirc it builds fine without, disabling respective code. Hence I don't
>> think this fully fits the other (strict) requirements.
> 
> I put it under the section that reads:
> 
> In addition to the above there are a number of optional build
> prerequisites. Omitting these will cause the related features to be
> disabled at compile time:
> 
> I figured with that caveat and mentioning PCI passthrough that it was
> good enough but I can happily reword further.

The immediately preceding item is

    * 16-bit x86 assembler, loader and compiler for qemu-traditional / rombios
      (dev86 rpm or bin86 & bcc debs)

Aiui qemu-trad won't build and/or work without these. As mentioned
I believe qemu-trad both builds and works fine without libpci, just
that PCI passthrough won't be possible. How about

    * libpci from pciutils for qemu-traditional to support PCI passthrough

? That's still not as explicitly optional as I would want it, but I can't
think of any better wording (without the entry getting undesirably
long).

Jan


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