Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/3] hw/arm: Add 'virt' platform

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 October 2013 17:48, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch series adds a 'virt' platform which uses the
> kernel's mach-virt (fully device-tree driven) support
> to create a simple minimalist platform intended for
> use for KVM VM guests.

> Changes v7->v8:
>  * iterate through virtio-mmio nodes the opposite way round so
>    that they appear in the device tree lowest-address-first;
>    this matches PPC behaviour and the vexpress code

...it turns out this isn't quite right. We need to create
the actual devices in forwards order (so that devices created
on the qemu command line populate the transports lowest address
first) and then create the dtb nodes in reverse order (so that
the transports appear in the final dtb lowest address first). Ugh.

Given this plus the fact that you still need a kernel patch to
get the thing to boot at all [would anybody on the kernel side
like to pick up that particular ball?], I'm leaning toward not
putting this in 1.7 now.

-- PMM