From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywrsi-0007Qe-2e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2015 08:53:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywrsd-0004ZR-2x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2015 08:53:24 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::232]:33169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywrsc-0004ZK-S0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2015 08:53:19 -0400 Received: by wgez8 with SMTP id z8so72461566wge.0 for ; Mon, 25 May 2015 05:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55631B3A.7080803@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 14:53:14 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <555DE2EF.1000509@redhat.com> <20150522110136.GF14428@redhat.com> <20150522111259.GG14428@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150522111259.GG14428@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Peter Maydell Cc: qemu-devel , KVM list On 22/05/2015 13:12, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > In > particular I don't see why we need to have a SATA controller and ISA/LPC > bridge in every virt machine - root PCI bus only should be possible, as you > can provide disks via virtio-blk or virtio-scsi and serial, parallel, mouse, > floppy via PCI devices and/or by adding a USB bus in the cases where you > really need one. I think removing the ISA/LPC bridge is hard. It includes the real-time clock and fw_cfg, for example. Paolo