Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvmarm] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

[Alexander Graf]

On 24.01.2013, at 15:42, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 24 January 2013 14:38, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> But check out the QEMU e500 machine. We have a fully device tree
>> based machine type in the kernel. QEMU drives it by generating a
>> device tree for devices it actually exposes on the fly.
> 
> The ARM equivalent for that would be mach-virt, I think
> (I forget what the status is but no doubt somebody will
> remind me :-))
> 
>> The big advantage we have here is that
>> 
>>  1) We don't have to emulate all hardware real hardware emulates
>>  2) We're not restricted to emulate what real hardware emulates. PCI on ARM 
>> anyone?
> 
> ...do we have an ARM PCI controller of any working kind in
> the kernel? versatilepb's PCI controller doesn't count as
> it is utterly broken :-)

Don't the Marvell chips have PCI? And Tegra? I'm sure there have to be some 
SoCs with PCI :).


Alex