From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Auger Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/4] machvirt dynamic sysbus device instantiation Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:17:03 +0200 Message-ID: <553E44DF.1030205@linaro.org> References: <1425485909-5091-1-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> <55390D15.2060909@linaro.org> <553E4168.7090307@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61634E9A8 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:11:23 -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 MVWkPaRVdNW2 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:11:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com (mail-wi0-f170.google.com [209.85.212.170]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 812C84E9A7 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:11:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wiax7 with SMTP id x7so85400889wia.0 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 07:19:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <553E4168.7090307@suse.de> 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: Alexander Graf , Baptiste Reynal Cc: eric.auger@st.com, patches@linaro.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, kvm-arm List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu On 04/27/2015 04:02 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 04/24/2015 09:36 AM, Baptiste Reynal wrote: >> I think it will be a pity to postpone VFIO support on QEMU and would >> rather introduce the support for VIRT_MMIO later. >> >> Alex, what is your position on it ? > > Ah, sorry, I read this mail too late. Converting virtio-mmio to a > dynamic sysbus device should be trivial after Eric's enablement. It's > basically the same as the calxeda nic driver, just that this time around > we're spawning the virtio-mmio bridge devices. Hi Alex, I can do this addition without pain in a separate series. Actually I thought you add in mind something more sophisticated where VIRTIO-MMIO would be added on platform-bus transparently if a VIRTIO device (virtio-net-device for instance) were instantiated. This appeared to me as less immediate. Best Regards Eric > > > Alex >