From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 14:53:14 +0200 Message-ID: <55631B3A.7080803@redhat.com> References: <555DE2EF.1000509@redhat.com> <20150522110136.GF14428@redhat.com> <20150522111259.GG14428@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: qemu-devel , KVM list To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Peter Maydell Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com ([209.85.212.173]:36385 "EHLO mail-wi0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750854AbbEYMxT (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2015 08:53:19 -0400 Received: by wizk4 with SMTP id k4so47481084wiz.1 for ; Mon, 25 May 2015 05:53:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150522111259.GG14428@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 22/05/2015 13:12, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > In > particular I don't see why we need to have a SATA controller and ISA/LPC > bridge in every virt machine - root PCI bus only should be possible, as you > can provide disks via virtio-blk or virtio-scsi and serial, parallel, mouse, > floppy via PCI devices and/or by adding a USB bus in the cases where you > really need one. I think removing the ISA/LPC bridge is hard. It includes the real-time clock and fw_cfg, for example. Paolo