Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvmarm] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

[Peter Maydell]

On 24 January 2013 14:38, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> But check out the QEMU e500 machine. We have a fully device tree
> based machine type in the kernel. QEMU drives it by generating a
> device tree for devices it actually exposes on the fly.

The ARM equivalent for that would be mach-virt, I think
(I forget what the status is but no doubt somebody will
remind me :-))

> The big advantage we have here is that
>
>   1) We don't have to emulate all hardware real hardware emulates
>   2) We're not restricted to emulate what real hardware emulates. PCI on ARM 
> anyone?

...do we have an ARM PCI controller of any working kind in
the kernel? versatilepb's PCI controller doesn't count as
it is utterly broken :-)

-- PMM