From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42311) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxMT2-0000m8-I3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 17:32:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxMSx-0001Q1-91 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 17:32:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:40538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxMSx-0001Om-4M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 17:32:51 -0400 Message-ID: <5564E4C9.8010906@codeaurora.org> Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 17:25:29 -0400 From: Christopher Covington MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <555DE2EF.1000509@redhat.com> <20150522110136.GF14428@redhat.com> <20150522111259.GG14428@redhat.com> <55631B3A.7080803@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <55631B3A.7080803@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Paolo Bonzini , "Daniel P. Berrange" , Peter Maydell Cc: qemu-devel , KVM list On 05/25/2015 08:53 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > 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. Could VirtIO specified replacements make sense for these peripherals? Chris -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project