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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress |
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Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:08:31 +0100 |
On 8 July 2013 13:59, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08.07.2013, at 14:57, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 27.06.2013, at 15:04, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> The basic idea is that the board instantiates some transports,
>>
>> I really dislike that idea. Couldn't you also create a new
>> bus for your vexpress platform and add a virtio-mmio-vexpress
>> device that automatically allocates an interrupt from the main
>> PIC on instantiation? That way you could create transports
>> using -device.
This doesn't seem to gain anything except that the user has
to use -device twice rather than once.
>> Combine that with automatic fdt generation and you get fully
>> command line scaling device creation.
>
> Ah, you already have the fdt generation bit. So you're really
> only missing the automatic irq allocation to make it actually
> user friendly and flexible.
It's not clear to me how you can automatically allocate an IRQ:
there just aren't that many available, and I'm already a bit
nervous about stealing 4, because we might run into issues if
newer versions of h/w use those IRQs for something else. One
approach would be to have all virtio transports share an IRQ
line (the spec currently forbids this; I need to test if it
would actually work in practice...)
As far as I know there's no way to find out at board
construction how many virtio devices you might want.
thanks
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Alexander Graf, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Alexander Graf, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Alexander Graf, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Peter Maydell, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Alexander Graf, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Peter Maydell, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Anthony Liguori, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Alexander Graf, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Anthony Liguori, 2013/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Andreas Färber, 2013/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Alexander Graf, 2013/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add virtio-mmio and use it in vexpress, Christoffer Dall, 2013/07/17