From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/4] machvirt dynamic sysbus device instantiation Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:02:16 +0200 Message-ID: <553E4168.7090307@suse.de> References: <1425485909-5091-1-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> <55390D15.2060909@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5264E994 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:55:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MmRgpOwU52Zs for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:55:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C30B4E98C for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:55:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu To: Baptiste Reynal , Eric Auger Cc: eric.auger@st.com, patches@linaro.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, kvm-arm List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu On 04/24/2015 09:36 AM, Baptiste Reynal wrote: > I think it will be a pity to postpone VFIO support on QEMU and would > rather introduce the support for VIRT_MMIO later. > > Alex, what is your position on it ? Ah, sorry, I read this mail too late. Converting virtio-mmio to a dynamic sysbus device should be trivial after Eric's enablement. It's basically the same as the calxeda nic driver, just that this time around we're spawning the virtio-mmio bridge devices. Alex From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymjdy-0000zn-Ds for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:04:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymjdu-0007cW-B9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:04:18 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57618 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymjdu-0007cF-4c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:04:14 -0400 Message-ID: <553E4168.7090307@suse.de> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:02:16 +0200 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1425485909-5091-1-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> <55390D15.2060909@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 0/4] machvirt dynamic sysbus device instantiation List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Baptiste Reynal , Eric Auger Cc: Peter Maydell , eric.auger@st.com, patches@linaro.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, kvm-arm , Christoffer Dall On 04/24/2015 09:36 AM, Baptiste Reynal wrote: > I think it will be a pity to postpone VFIO support on QEMU and would > rather introduce the support for VIRT_MMIO later. > > Alex, what is your position on it ? Ah, sorry, I read this mail too late. Converting virtio-mmio to a dynamic sysbus device should be trivial after Eric's enablement. It's basically the same as the calxeda nic driver, just that this time around we're spawning the virtio-mmio bridge devices. Alex