Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> writes: > On 06/14/2012 02:54 PM, Jason Baron wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently updated Isaku Yamahata's q35 patches to work on the latest qemu >> and >> seabios trees. On the qemu side, most of the changes revolved around updating >> to use QOM and updates to the memory API. I was also able to drop quite a few >> patches that had already been resolved by the current qemu tree. >> >> The trees seem pretty stable and can be found here: >> >> git://github.com/jibaron/q35-qemu.git >> git://github.com/jibaron/q35-seabios.git > > I'm got the beginnings of a feature page started: > > http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Q35 > > The approach above will not work in a QOM world unfortunately. We > need to do quite a bit of ground work before adding another chipset. > The biggest task is converting devices to not require an ISA bus since > ICH9 simply doesn't have an ISA bus.
Could you explain briefly why use of a software ISA bus construct matters for device models and/or guests? [...]
