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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration
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Andrew Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files |
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Thu, 9 Feb 2017 19:05:34 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.6.0.1 (2016-04-01) |
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:06:19PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 17:36 +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 05:11:38PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 16:35 +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Please propose the alternative wording you'd like to see
> > > > > so we can discuss it :)
> > > >
> > > > I guess I did above with "... -nodefaults ensures no non-builtin
> > > > peripherals are automatically added, but builtin peripherals,
> > > > such as the PL011, will remain..."
> > >
> > > Trying to work your proposal into my most recent stab at
> > > this, I ended up with:
> > >
> > > Using -nodefaults is required to have full control over
> > > the virtual hardware: when it's specified, QEMU will
> > > populate the board with only the builtin peripherals,
> > > such as the PL011 UART, plus a small selection of core
> > > PCI devices and controllers; the user will then have to
> >
> > Well, mach-virt doesn't currently add any pci devices with
> > -nodefault; just the host bridge. Personally, I'd state it that
> > way to avoid confusion, but I know you're trying to keep the
> > paragraph similar to the q35 one, and you're not technically
> > wrong...
>
> Okay, one more try! ;)
>
> Using -nodefaults is required to have full control over
> the virtual hardware: when it's specified, QEMU will
> populate the board with only the builtin peripherals,
> such as the PL011 UART, plus a PCI Express Root Bus; the
> user will then have to explicitly add further devices.
>
> The PCI Express Root Bus shows up in the guest as:
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge
>
> This configuration file adds a number of...
>
> --
> Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
Sounds good to me :-)
Thanks,
drew
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrew Jones, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrea Bolognani, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrew Jones, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrea Bolognani, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Gerd Hoffmann, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrea Bolognani, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrew Jones, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrea Bolognani, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrew Jones, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files, Andrea Bolognani, 2017/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files,
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/2] q35: Improve sample configuration files, Andrea Bolognani, 2017/02/08