From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKIdA-00055G-JL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:24:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKId8-0001f5-2s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:24:52 -0400 Received: from mail-da0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22f]:60465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKId7-0001dN-Sf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:24:50 -0400 Received: by mail-da0-f47.google.com with SMTP id s35so3438624dak.34 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Richard Henderson Message-ID: <5150F8DC.6040300@twiddle.net> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:24:44 -0700 From: Richard Henderson MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1364259174.15703.71@driftwood> In-Reply-To: <1364259174.15703.71@driftwood> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Target-agnostic virtio? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Rob Landley Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 2013-03-25 17:52, Rob Landley wrote: > Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on arbitrary > targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, mips, powerpc, > sparc... (And can the virtio serial console hook up to qemu's stdin/stdout in > -nographic mode yet?) > > I asked this in 2010 and the answer at the time was "no". Still not entirely > sure why. Yes, so long as the machine description has a supported bus, e.g. pci. It took almost nothing to hook up virtio-pci to alpha. r~