On 08/03/2010 10:15 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
fw_cfg has to be available pretty early on so relying on a PCI device isn't reasonable. Having dual interfaces seems wasteful.
Agree.
We're already doing bulk data transfer over fw_cfg as we need to do it to transfer roms and potentially a boot splash.
Why do we need to transfer roms? These are devices on the memory bus or pci bus, it just needs to be there at the right address. Boot splash should just be another rom as it would be on a real system.
Even outside of loading an initrd, the performance is going to start to matter with a large number of devices.
I don't really see why. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
