This patchset makes SMBUS/SATA/PIT configurable and introduces a new machine type q35-lite with these features disabled by default. This is useful for creating light weight virtual machine without boot time penalty when these devices are unused.
See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg00422.html for the background. Chao Peng (4): pc: make smbus configurable pc: make sata configurable pc: make pit configurable q35: introduce q35-lite hw/i386/pc.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 2 +- hw/i386/pc_q35.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- include/hw/i386/pc.h | 8 +++++++ 4 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1