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([2001:b07:6468:f312:8501:6b03:f18c:74f8]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d10sm24915521wrx.34.2019.07.19.04.49.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=AEAD-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 19 Jul 2019 04:49:41 -0700 (PDT) To: Sergio Lopez References: <20190701144705.102615-1-slp@redhat.com> <20190701144705.102615-5-slp@redhat.com> <20190702081733.ff6cboiddln5wmti@sirius.home.kraxel.org> <878stgygiu.fsf@redhat.com> <20190702101625.trsg5dnnf2a4woqs@sirius.home.kraxel.org> <875zokyahg.fsf@redhat.com> <8c3b4619-f779-fb0c-7a53-b67150036a07@redhat.com> <8736joxzv4.fsf@redhat.com> <87ef2ntnr1.fsf@redhat.com> <8cc45a56-1d12-838c-e746-e10df8804bc9@redhat.com> <875znypb8s.fsf@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <9bb83ac5-2fc5-732d-772c-ad653c080d58@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:49:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <875znypb8s.fsf@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.221.66 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] hw/i386: Introduce the microvm machine type 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, maran.wilson@oracle.com, mst@redhat.com, Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann , Stefano Garzarella , rth@twiddle.net Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" 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