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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 12:04:54 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>

On 22 May 2015 at 12:01, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> On the QEMU side of things I wonder if there is scope for taking AArch64's
> 'virt' machine type concept and duplicating it on all architectures.

Experience suggests that holding the line on "minimal" is really
quite tricky, though -- there's always one more thing that
somebody really wants to add...

-- PMM