From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add VirtIO Frame Buffer Support Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:14:41 -0600 Message-ID: <4AF048E1.90408@codemonkey.ws> References: <1257199759-2941-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4AEFCBED.50804@redhat.com> <4AEFCCBA.9050408@redhat.com> <8BA1853F-11C9-44B1-9FDB-1DFDAED40E1B@suse.de> <4AEFCEDA.4030308@redhat.com> <87F51670-CB3F-431C-87B4-A8746F996C6F@suse.de> <4AEFDF35.3020806@redhat.com> <8EA2855E-4209-4CCA-9E87-1D652A72F8FE@suse.de> <4AEFE7DA.30105@redhat.com> <4AEFEF71.5010105@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AEFEF71.5010105@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Avi Kivity Cc: Alexander Graf , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Avi Kivity wrote: > On 11/03/2009 10:26 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> Exactly. In fact, I'm even scared to reboot mine because I might end >> up in a 3270 terminal. The whole text only crap keeps people from >> using this platform! And that's what I want to change here. > > Ok. I oppose paravirtualization for its own sake and only support it > if there's no other way to get performance. In this case it buys us > basic functionality which is surprisingly missing on native, that's > arguably even more important. There is no "native" on s390. Everything is "paravirtual". Regards, Anthony Liguori From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5L5y-0003Vq-Sc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:14:54 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5L5t-0003Sv-Bw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:14:53 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38364 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5L5s-0003SQ-RA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:14:48 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f43.google.com ([209.85.160.43]:40365) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N5L5s-0008FQ-GF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:14:48 -0500 Received: by pwj6 with SMTP id 6so2656185pwj.2 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:14:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AF048E1.90408@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:14:41 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1257199759-2941-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4AEFCBED.50804@redhat.com> <4AEFCCBA.9050408@redhat.com> <8BA1853F-11C9-44B1-9FDB-1DFDAED40E1B@suse.de> <4AEFCEDA.4030308@redhat.com> <87F51670-CB3F-431C-87B4-A8746F996C6F@suse.de> <4AEFDF35.3020806@redhat.com> <8EA2855E-4209-4CCA-9E87-1D652A72F8FE@suse.de> <4AEFE7DA.30105@redhat.com> <4AEFEF71.5010105@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4AEFEF71.5010105@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add VirtIO Frame Buffer Support List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Alexander Graf , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Avi Kivity wrote: > On 11/03/2009 10:26 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> Exactly. In fact, I'm even scared to reboot mine because I might end >> up in a 3270 terminal. The whole text only crap keeps people from >> using this platform! And that's what I want to change here. > > Ok. I oppose paravirtualization for its own sake and only support it > if there's no other way to get performance. In this case it buys us > basic functionality which is surprisingly missing on native, that's > arguably even more important. There is no "native" on s390. Everything is "paravirtual". Regards, Anthony Liguori