On 30/07/19 18:06, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 07/29/19 14:57, Sergio Lopez wrote: >> Implement the modern (v2) personality, according to the VirtIO 1.0 >> specification. >> >> Support for v2 among guests is not as widespread as it'd be >> desirable. While the Linux driver has had it for a while, support is >> missing, at least, from Tianocore EDK II, NetBSD and FreeBSD. > > That's right; not only are there no plans to implement virtio-mmio/1.0 > for OVMF (to my knowledge), I'd even argue against such efforts. > > OVMF is a heavy-weight guest firmware, which I see entirely out of scope > for "micro VMs". And so virtio-mmio/1.0 would seem like a needless & > unwelcome complication, from the OVMF maintainership perspective.
But given that, why not rip out virtio-mmio completely? Paolo
