From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Ian.Campbell@citrix.com" <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
"linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org>,
Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"stefano.stabellini@citrix.com" <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>,
"tech@virtualopensystems.com" <tech@virtualopensystems.com>,
Parth Dixit <parth.dixit@linaro.org>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Linaro-acpi] [RFC PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/virt: Dynamic ACPI v5.1 table generation
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:52:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54638239.8090901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_RhUH+WmGzJjfuzxryMWfhda7a72w8Uf4Gdo8mca0OsQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/11/2014 16:39, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Definitely, I think having the OS manually program the BARs only makes sense
> > in an environment where you don't have a full-featured boot loader or you
> > don't trust it. In servers and virtual machines, the PCI bus should always come
> > fully set up. This also implies that the OS should not have to deal with
> > registers for setting up the translation between PCI and system address
> > ranges.
>
> It seems to me like complicated stuff like that definitely belongs
> in the UEFI/bootloader blob, though. I'd rather QEMU just modelled
> the hardware and let the guest (or the firmware, which is guest
> code from QEMU's point of view) set it up however it wants.
It definitely doesn't belong in QEMU!
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-30 17:43 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/virt: Dynamic ACPI v5.1 table generation Alexander Spyridakis
2014-10-30 17:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/7] hw/i386: Move ACPI header definitions in an arch-independent location Alexander Spyridakis
2014-10-30 17:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/7] hw/arm/virt-acpi: Basic skeleton for dynamic generation of ACPI tables Alexander Spyridakis
2014-10-30 17:46 ` Peter Maydell
2014-10-30 17:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/virt: Dynamic ACPI v5.1 table generation Peter Maydell
2014-10-30 18:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [Linaro-acpi] " Mark Rutland
2014-11-05 9:58 ` Claudio Fontana
2014-11-06 12:44 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-06 12:57 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-11-06 13:33 ` Alexander Spyridakis
2014-11-06 13:52 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-11 15:29 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-11 16:31 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-11 16:48 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-11 21:33 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 10:38 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 10:44 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 10:55 ` Julien Grall
2014-11-12 11:07 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 11:38 ` Graeme Gregory
2014-11-12 11:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 12:04 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 12:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 13:27 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-12 13:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 15:01 ` Claudio Fontana
2014-11-12 15:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 15:39 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-12 15:52 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-11-12 15:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 16:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 16:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 16:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 17:33 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-13 8:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-13 8:14 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-13 8:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-13 18:16 ` Al Stone
2014-11-13 19:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-14 7:54 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-12 9:08 ` Claudio Fontana
2014-11-12 10:56 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 11:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 11:34 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 12:18 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 12:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 12:40 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 13:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 13:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 13:41 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 13:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 14:10 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 14:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-12 13:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 13:35 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-11-12 11:55 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-12 18:10 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-13 9:57 ` Claudio Fontana
2014-11-17 17:52 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-06 6:53 ` Hanjun Guo
2014-11-06 13:30 ` Mark Rutland
2014-11-06 13:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-06 15:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-06 16:18 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-11-06 16:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-07 8:31 ` Hanjun Guo
2015-03-09 12:12 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-03-09 12:28 ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-09 12:47 ` Shannon Zhao
2015-03-09 14:50 ` Leif Lindholm
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