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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (v
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1) |
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Thu, 1 Aug 2019 01:58:35 +0200 |
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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
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Cornelia Huck, 2019/07/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Andrea Bolognani, 2019/07/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Cornelia Huck, 2019/07/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2019/07/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2019/07/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Sergio Lopez, 2019/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Cornelia Huck, 2019/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2019/07/31
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Sergio Lopez, 2019/07/31
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1), Laszlo Ersek, 2019/07/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-mmio: implement modern (v2) personality (virtio-1),
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