From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, maran.wilson@oracle.com, mst@redhat.com,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] hw/i386: Introduce the microvm machine type
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:49:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9bb83ac5-2fc5-732d-772c-ad653c080d58@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875znypb8s.fsf@redhat.com>
On 19/07/19 12:30, Sergio Lopez wrote:
> If people feel more comfortable keeping QEMU on x86_64 starting on Real
> Mode and having the firmware writing mptables, I'm fine with taking this
> approach.
>
> That said, to avoid confusing users, I think it'd be better to drop the
> legacy mode for SeaBIOS, and support just qboot. That would mean having
> to add a binary from the latter to "pc-bios" with some descriptive name
> ("qboot-microvm.bin"?) and making microvm look for that one by default.
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable plan?
Yes, though I wouldn't call it qboot-microvm.bin but just bios-microvm.bin.
In the meanwhile, feel free to send a pull request to the qboot project.
The mptables can be written for all platforms, even those that have
ACPI (there is always -no-acpi, too).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-19 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-01 14:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce the microvm machine type Sergio Lopez
2019-07-01 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] hw/virtio: Factorize virtio-mmio headers Sergio Lopez
2019-07-01 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] hw/i386: Add an Intel MPTable generator Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 8:02 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-07-02 8:37 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 9:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-07-01 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] hw/i386: Factorize PVH related functions Sergio Lopez
2019-07-01 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] hw/i386: Introduce the microvm machine type Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 8:17 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-07-02 8:42 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 10:16 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-07-02 10:52 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 11:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-07-02 14:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-02 14:41 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-18 14:34 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-18 15:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-19 10:30 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-19 11:49 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-07-02 8:19 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-02 8:47 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 10:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-02 11:16 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-01 18:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] " no-reply
2019-07-01 19:06 ` no-reply
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