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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.