From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Question about qemu firmware configuration (fw_cfg) device
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:54:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100719145445.GW4689@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4466A7.3030808@codemonkey.ws>
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:52:23AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 07/19/2010 04:15 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:09:13AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>On 19.07.2010, at 11:06, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:00:04AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>>>virt-install is another program that uses explicit -initrd.
> >>>>
> >>>Installation takes a lot of time. Saving 1 second there will not be
> >>>noticeable. And during lifetime of installed VM initrd will be loaded
> >>>from its disk.
> >>Guys, please. It shouldn't be one or the other. Let's make sure both ways of doing things are fast. That's what users want: fast.
> >>
> >That what we are talking about, no? We are trying to find faster way to
> >load kernel/initrd and stay architectural.
>
> Modern platforms are not nearly as "architectural" as you would think.
>
> It's not unusual to hang a custom chip off of the Southbridge that
> implements platform specific services along with an array of
> "legacy" devices that are implemented mostly in software to cost.
>
> Other buses (like PS/2) are largely implemented in SMM today by the BIOS.
>
I don't get your point. What is not "architectural" about all that?
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-19 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-17 9:50 [Qemu-devel] Question about qemu firmware configuration (fw_cfg) device Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-17 9:53 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-18 17:26 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-18 20:09 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-18 20:32 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 6:23 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 7:28 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 7:33 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 7:40 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 7:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 7:57 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 8:01 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 8:08 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 8:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 8:24 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 8:30 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 8:41 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 8:48 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 8:54 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 9:00 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 9:02 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 9:10 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 9:13 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 9:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 9:21 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 9:32 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 9:23 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-20 13:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-07-20 13:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-20 13:59 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 9:19 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 7:44 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 7:55 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 8:34 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 8:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 9:00 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 9:04 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 9:06 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 9:09 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 9:15 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 9:16 ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 13:06 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 13:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 14:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-19 14:54 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2010-07-19 14:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-19 14:53 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 15:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-19 16:11 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 16:47 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-07-19 17:04 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 19:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-07-19 6:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 6:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gleb Natapov
2010-07-20 22:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-07-21 7:27 ` Alexander Graf
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