From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Covington Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 17:25:29 -0400 Message-ID: <5564E4C9.8010906@codeaurora.org> References: <555DE2EF.1000509@redhat.com> <20150522110136.GF14428@redhat.com> <20150522111259.GG14428@redhat.com> <55631B3A.7080803@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: qemu-devel , KVM list To: Paolo Bonzini , "Daniel P. Berrange" , Peter Maydell Return-path: Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:33533 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751461AbbEZVZd (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 17:25:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <55631B3A.7080803@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/25/2015 08:53 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > 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. Could VirtIO specified replacements make sense for these peripherals? Chris -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project