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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio-pci: new config layout: using memory BAR
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:15:19 -0700
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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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On 06/05/2013 01:45 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> But if you want to boot from the 16th device, the BIOS needs to solve
> this problem anyway.
> 

No.  Just have the BIOS plumb the path to the device it wants to boot
from.  Problem solved.

	-hpa