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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:36:32 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) |
* Paolo Bonzini (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>
> On 17/06/2016 10:14, Chao Peng wrote:
> > Basically:
> > - it removes old ISA devices and support only PCI devices;
>
> I think you need to keep at least the RTC, otherwise where does Linux
> get the time of day from?
>
> > - it removes 8259, instead use MSI as much as possible. IOAPIC and PCI
> > PIN are still kept to support ACPI SCI;
> > - it supports PCIE ( you can use MMFG instead of 0xcf8/0xcfc port
> > access);
> > - it gets rid of legacy firmware interfaces and supports ACPI tables;
> > - it supports CPU/memory/PCI hotplug;
> > - it supports Linux-guest only at present;
> > - You may need carefully configure guest kernel;
> > - You are forced to use virtio-serial-pci, old 8250/16550 is not there;
>
> It doesn't support PCIe hotplug though, I think? (Because it doesn't
> support PCI bridges and PCIe hotplug doesn't work for root complex
> devices). So is it ACPI-based hotplug?
>
> Lack of 8250/16550 means lack of earlyprintk. I know the driver is slow
> though, so I understand that.
You could always define a different way to get early debug; for example
a chunk of RAM at a known address seems fine for a VM.
Dave
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/06/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Chao Peng, 2016/06/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Chao Peng, 2016/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Claudio Fontana, 2016/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Claudio Fontana, 2016/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Claudio Fontana, 2016/06/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Chao Peng, 2016/06/28
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite,
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/06/18
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite, Claudio Fontana, 2016/06/19