From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Sergio Lopez Pascual <slp@redhat.com>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 01:58:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9953cc99-80b3-814c-f75e-a16c987c23e5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <932a0c3c-b6cb-540f-ca07-1559c8fe9049@redhat.com>
On 30/07/19 18:06, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 07/29/19 14:57, Sergio Lopez wrote:
>> Implement the modern (v2) personality, according to the VirtIO 1.0
>> specification.
>>
>> Support for v2 among guests is not as widespread as it'd be
>> desirable. While the Linux driver has had it for a while, support is
>> missing, at least, from Tianocore EDK II, NetBSD and FreeBSD.
>
> That's right; not only are there no plans to implement virtio-mmio/1.0
> for OVMF (to my knowledge), I'd even argue against such efforts.
>
> OVMF is a heavy-weight guest firmware, which I see entirely out of scope
> for "micro VMs". And so virtio-mmio/1.0 would seem like a needless &
> unwelcome complication, from the OVMF maintainership perspective.
But given that, why not rip out virtio-mmio completely?
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-31 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-29 12:57 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1) Sergio Lopez
2019-07-29 13:10 ` no-reply
2019-07-30 7:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-30 8:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-31 12:22 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-31 19:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-31 21:22 ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-07-30 10:25 ` Andrea Bolognani
2019-07-30 11:35 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-07-30 12:17 ` Andrea Bolognani
2019-07-30 13:14 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-07-30 20:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-30 20:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-31 11:04 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-31 13:55 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-07-31 19:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-01 8:18 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-07-31 11:02 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-08-01 12:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-30 16:06 ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-31 23:58 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-08-01 19:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-02 9:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-02 0:26 ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-08-02 9:20 ` Peter Maydell
2019-08-02 22:33 ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-08-01 8:37 ` Sergio Lopez
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