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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc_piix: enable legacy hotplug for Xen
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:04:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F26F08.2000300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402051651160.4373@kaball.uk.xensource.com>

Il 05/02/2014 17:54, Stefano Stabellini ha scritto:
>> > I'm not sure how this is related to fw_cfg?  fw_cfg is just a simple key-value
>> > store.  If hvmloader doesn't use it, it should be a burden.
> I was referring to the fact that QEMU might not have all the info that
> need to be written to fw_cfg when running on Xen: some of the info might
> be in the hypervisor and some other in another QEMU instance.
> Or do you think that fw_cfg could be written by multiple entities
> simultaneously?

Wouldn't it be possible to fetch the necessary information via 
hypercalls or in xenstore?

It's possible that some particular fw_cfg entries will be skipped for 
Xen, but most of them should apply.  fw_cfg support would also make it 
possible to use -kernel/-initrd in Xen HVM machines, for example.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-05 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-04 21:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc_piix: enable legacy hotplug for Xen Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-04 21:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-04 22:28   ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-02-05 16:35     ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-05 16:45       ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-02-05 16:50         ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-05 16:41   ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-05 16:47     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-05 16:54       ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-05 17:04         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-02-05 17:53           ` Stefano Stabellini

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