From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 3/4] hw/arm/virt: add dynamic sysbus device support Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:05:16 +0200 Message-ID: <553E421C.50207@suse.de> References: <1429888773-11730-1-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> <1429888773-11730-4-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> <553E3C71.1040001@suse.de> 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 CE9DC4E99C for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:58:52 -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 lyJfBUE0YKPX for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:58:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B95E4E98F for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:58:50 -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: Peter Maydell Cc: eric.auger@st.com, Patch Tracking , QEMU Developers , Alex Williamson , Paolo Bonzini , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu On 04/27/2015 03:56 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 27 April 2015 at 14:41, Alexander Graf wrote: >> Peter, would you have a hard time if we just get rid of VIRT_MMIO completely >> and allow users to create the mmio-virtio bridges using -device for -M >> virt-2.4 and above? > I would strongly prefer not -- it breaks existing working command > lines. I agree that we are going to want to move to virtio-pci > and virtio-mmio is just legacy, but retaining legacy is what makes > QEMU not kvmtool, right? :-) Heh ;). Oh well, I guess the series is ready to go in then. I'd still like to see the virtio-mmio bridge get enabled for dynamic platform bus support soon, so that we can eventually phase out the preallocated region. Alex From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymjgt-0004Fz-Hu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:07:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymjgn-00008Z-Us for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:07:19 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57984 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymjgn-00008T-OC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:07:13 -0400 Message-ID: <553E421C.50207@suse.de> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:05:16 +0200 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1429888773-11730-1-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> <1429888773-11730-4-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> <553E3C71.1040001@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 3/4] hw/arm/virt: add dynamic sysbus device support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com, eric.auger@st.com, Eric Auger , Patch Tracking , QEMU Developers , Bharat Bhushan , Alex Williamson , Paolo Bonzini , =?UTF-8?B?QWxleCBCZW5uw6ll?= , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , Christoffer Dall On 04/27/2015 03:56 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 27 April 2015 at 14:41, Alexander Graf wrote: >> Peter, would you have a hard time if we just get rid of VIRT_MMIO completely >> and allow users to create the mmio-virtio bridges using -device for -M >> virt-2.4 and above? > I would strongly prefer not -- it breaks existing working command > lines. I agree that we are going to want to move to virtio-pci > and virtio-mmio is just legacy, but retaining legacy is what makes > QEMU not kvmtool, right? :-) Heh ;). Oh well, I guess the series is ready to go in then. I'd still like to see the virtio-mmio bridge get enabled for dynamic platform bus support soon, so that we can eventually phase out the preallocated region. Alex