From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQYOv-0004cg-Iq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 04:00:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQYOm-0007Ig-Jv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 04:00:17 -0400 Received: from mail-qe0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c02::235]:62149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQYOm-0007IM-FX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 04:00:08 -0400 Received: by mail-qe0-f53.google.com with SMTP id jy17so3517545qeb.26 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 01:00:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ashish Kaila" Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 04:00:05 -0400 Message-ID: <005f01cebdb3$131a9d30$394fd790$@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0060_01CEBD91.8C09E790" Content-Language: en-in Subject: [Qemu-devel] Minimal Qemu build for Plan9 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: maneets@andrew.cmu.edu This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0060_01CEBD91.8C09E790 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am a graduate student from CMU and currently working on trying to port Qemu on plan9. I was trying to initially build a minimal Qemu with the least set of devices that are necessary to support a machine, however I noticed that I couldn't understand some of the dependencies such as requiring an audio driver during initialization. I am currently trying to port just the i386-softmmu version of Qemu to plan9 to keep things simple, here I noticed that pc_init1() initializes a host of devices on the PCI bus like the NIC card etc and was wondering if there is a bare minimum set of devices that Qemu needs to be built with ? Additionally if someone could point me to a to-do list of things to look out for while porting Qemu on a new platform (new OS/hardware), I would be extremely grateful. Thanks & Regards Ashish ------=_NextPart_000_0060_01CEBD91.8C09E790 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

 

I am a = graduate student from CMU and currently working on trying to port Qemu = on plan9. I was trying to initially build a minimal Qemu with the least = set of devices that are necessary to support a machine, however I = noticed that I couldn’t understand some of the dependencies such = as requiring an audio driver during initialization. I am currently = trying to port just the i386-softmmu version of Qemu to plan9 to keep = things simple, here I noticed that  pc_init1() initializes a host = of devices on the PCI bus like the NIC card etc and was wondering if = there is a bare minimum set of devices that Qemu needs to be built with = ?

 

Additionally if someone could point me to a to-do list = of things to look out for while porting Qemu on a new platform (new = OS/hardware), I would be extremely grateful.

 

Thanks & = Regards

Ashish

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