[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Nov 9

[Chris Wright]

linux plumbers
- qemu talks, including xen folks efforts to get patches upstream
  - considering virtio
  - considering seabios
  - even some xenner interest
- seabios presentation
- uefi
  - still needs CSM support (lot of work) to be the only BIOS
  - otherwise need legacy BIOS and UEFI and users choose
  - who's interested?
- host numa support (guest placement and home noding)
  - static pinning fine for benchmarking
  - -mempath
  - migrate_pages(2) can be called from usersapce to push pages around
  - like to push this framework into the kernel
  - wiki page for planning coming RSN
- ways to improve qemu ...
  - C++, RFC patches to show value of language object support and device model
  - like to get to devices modular enough to have unit tests, etc.
  - any security interest in using a stronger typed language?

kernel summit
- showed up in many talks (mainstream part of the kernel)
- KVM for ARM hallways discussion
- more developers interested in joining the project (need to prepare for this)

USB 2.0 ehci support
- anyone looking at this?
  - Jes has it on his todo list (albeit not near the top priority)
- should send out a note summarizing status of that tree (Jan will send note)
  - is USB passthrough fully working with this?
- USB 3.0 coming, plan for that (maybe go straight there)

openfirmware tree
- problem stable/unique names for devices (like UUID generated at dev creation)
- addressing device externally from QEMU is still hard
- also can't touch the user defined namespace