From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Armbruster Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 13:42:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87mw0wrg8d.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> References: <555DE2EF.1000509@redhat.com> <20150522110136.GF14428@redhat.com> <20150522111259.GG14428@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Paolo Bonzini , qemu-devel , KVM list To: Peter Maydell Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43790 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752617AbbEVLmP (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 07:42:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Peter Maydell's message of "Fri, 22 May 2015 12:21:27 +0100") Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Peter Maydell writes: > On 22 May 2015 at 12:12, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> Yep, it is hard saying no - but I'd think as long as it was possible to add >> the extra features using -device, it ought to be practical to keep a "virt" >> machine types "-nodefaults -nodefconfig" base setup pretty minimal. > > Mmm, but -device only works for pluggable devices really. We don't > have a coherent mechanism for saying "put the PS/2 keyboard controller > into the system at its usual IO ports" on the command line. ... yet. The qdev long-term vision has always been to support starting with an empty board, then add device models and their wiring. Unfortunately, progress towards that goal has been slow.