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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 10/12] hw/arm: introduce xenpv machine
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:37:43 +0100
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Julien Grall <julien@xen.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> There seem to be some missing patches on xen-devel (including the
> cover letter). Is that expected?
>
> On 15/10/2022 06:07, Vikram Garhwal wrote:
>> Add a new machine xenpv which creates a IOREQ server to register/connect=
 with
>> Xen Hypervisor.
>
> I don't like the name 'xenpv' because it doesn't convey the fact that
> some of the HW may be emulated rather than para-virtualized. In fact
> one may only want to use for emulating devices.
>
> Potential name would be 'xen-arm' or re-using 'virt' but with
> 'accel=3Dxen' to select a Xen layout.

I don't think you can re-use the machine name and select by accelerator
because the virt machine does quite a lot of other stuff this model
doesn't support. However I've been calling this concept "xen-virt" or
maybe the explicit "xen-virtio" because that is what it is targeting.

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