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[88.21.201.14]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f83sm1882500wmf.43.2019.10.17.03.56.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 13/15] docs/microvm.rst: document the new microvm machine type To: Sergio Lopez References: <20191016101241.24405-1-slp@redhat.com> <20191016101241.24405-14-slp@redhat.com> <87ftjrhcq7.fsf@redhat.com> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= Message-ID: <6e84a3fb-0ded-6302-af44-a1d70eea60fa@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:56:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87ftjrhcq7.fsf@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, groug@kaod.org, kraxel@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, imammedo@redhat.com, sgarzare@redhat.com, lersek@redhat.com, rth@twiddle.net Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 10/17/19 12:45 PM, Sergio Lopez wrote: >=20 > Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 writes: >=20 >> Hi Sergio, >> >> On 10/16/19 12:12 PM, Sergio Lopez wrote: >>> +Supported devices >>> +----------------- >>> + >>> +The microvm machine type supports the following devices: >>> + >>> +- ISA bus >>> +- i8259 PIC (optional) >>> +- i8254 PIT (optional) >>> +- MC146818 RTC (optional) >>> +- One ISA serial port (optional) >>> +- LAPIC >>> +- IOAPIC (with kernel-irqchip=3Dsplit by default) >>> +- kvmclock (if using KVM) >>> +- fw_cfg >>> +- Up to eight virtio-mmio devices (configured by the user) >> >> If we have VirtIO devices, why not use virtio-serial instead of the >> one on the ISA bus? >=20 > The serial port on the ISA bus is simpler, and thus is supported for > both SeaBIOS debugging and Linux's earlyprintk. This makes it *very* > convenient for debugging boot issues. "... but it's also compatible with SeaBIOS" OK. Maybe we can add a comment such "These devices are the minimum=20 required to run SeaBIOS" in the 'Supported devices' section. >=20 > Also, as it's explained in the documentation, users that no longer need > it can disable the device and just rely on virtio-console. >=20 > Sergio. >=20