From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/22] Refactor machine support
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:16:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0EB32A.1050604@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6110090C-2586-4CA0-BEDD-FDF4C6C2072E@suse.de>
On 06/08/2010 04:05 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 08.06.2010, at 18:15, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>
>>
>>> 4) expose everything to the user, at the cost of regretting it later. This is the current patchset.
>>>
>>>
>>> One "smart way to implement default devices" could be an inclusion mechanism where a machine can ask qemu to read other config files. Then you'd have config files for the default serial/parallel/etc. This could also be implemented on top of choices 2/3/4 though.
>>>
>> Default devices are a real pain. Fortunately, we only mess with it in s390 so I'm fairly certain we can simplify things considerable. It's just not something I wanted to tackle in this series.
>>
> Wait, what? The only "default" device we have on s390 is virtio-console - and that's basically the same as having VGA output on x86 enabled by default, no?
>
What I was saying is that all the .no_vga/.no_serial/.use_virtcon bits
in QEMUMachine are strictly due to s390. Since the use of these are so
specific, it'll be fairly easy to eliminate them in a more natural way.
What most other boards do is simply ignore whatever vl.c does FWIW.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-08 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-07 23:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/22] Refactor machine support Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/22] QemuOpts: fix a bug in QemuOpts when setting an option twice Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 7:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-08 10:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-08 13:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 13:44 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-08 15:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 15:37 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-08 16:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 7:01 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-08 14:38 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-08 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/22] QemuOpts: make qemu_opts_validate() store the description list for later use Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/22] QemuOpts: add function to set QemuOpts from defaults Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/22] machine: package all init arguments into a QemuOpts (v2) Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/22] machine: pass all init options as a single QemuOpts Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 7:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/22] Make -acpi-enable a machine specific option Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/22] machine: introduce -machine option Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/22] machine: implement -kernel/-append/-initrd options in term of -machine Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/22] machine: implement -m in terms " Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/22] machine: allow boards to specify default values and use it in isapc Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 8:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-08 13:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 13:29 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-07 23:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/22] machine: replace compat_props with opts_default Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/22] machine: some sugary macros to simplify machine default options Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/22] machine: get rid of global default QEMUMachine members Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/22] machine: replace QEMUMachine.use_scsi with -machine default_drive Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/22] machine: make max_cpus a -machine option Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 1:01 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-08 1:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 2:56 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-09 7:44 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-06-09 7:47 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/22] machine: move default machine out of machine definitions Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/22] machine: kill machine->alias Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/22] machine: final conversion to pure QemuOpts Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 19/22] machine: introduce accel option to allow selection of kvm or tcg Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 20/22] machine: introduce machine core and split qemu_register_machine Anthony Liguori
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 21/22] machine: convert pc machines to split core vs machine API Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 7:51 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-06-07 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 22/22] machine: introduce -machine-def option to define a machine via config Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 0:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-10 17:48 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-06-11 13:03 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-06-08 3:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/22] Refactor machine support Paul Brook
2010-06-08 10:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-08 14:30 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-08 15:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 15:36 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-08 15:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-08 16:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 21:05 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-08 21:16 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-06-08 17:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 2:11 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-09 13:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 14:30 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-09 20:47 ` Blue Swirl
2010-06-09 20:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 21:09 ` Blue Swirl
2010-06-09 22:26 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-08 14:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
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2010-06-08 14:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
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