From: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
PCIe features are available only via the 'q35' machine type for x86 and
the 'virt' machine type for AArch64 architecture.
Mention that explicitly.
Thanks: Daniel Berrangé
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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docs/pcie.txt | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/pcie.txt b/docs/pcie.txt
index 8d36949..89e3502 100644
--- a/docs/pcie.txt
+++ b/docs/pcie.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,13 @@ PCI EXPRESS GUIDELINES
1. Introduction
================
-The doc proposes best practices on how to use PCI Express/PCI device
-in PCI Express based machines and explains the reasoning behind them.
+The doc proposes best practices on how to use PCI Express (PCIe) / PCI
+devices in PCI Express based machines and explains the reasoning behind
+them.
+
+Note that the PCIe features are available only when using the 'q35'
+machine type on x86 architecture and the 'virt' machine type on AArch64.
+Other machine types do not use PCIe at this time.
The following presentations accompany this document:
(1) Q35 overview.
--
MST