[fedora-arm] Booting Fedora kernels on qemu, and the current state of emulated virtio/PCI

[Jonathan Masters]

Hi Richard,

There are older models of "versatile" that are not the same, which is the cause of the macbine selection oddity. I see your points on PCI and will followup next year.

Jon.

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On Dec 27, 2012, at 15:17, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> Does anyone have a quick overview of $SUBJECT?
> 
> In particular:
> 
> I cannot get any Fedora kernels to boot on the latest qemu, unless I
> use -M vexpress-a{9,15}.  Has support for -M versatilepb been dropped?
> 
> vexpress-a{9,15} doesn't support PCI, which means it doesn't support
> virtio (especially virtio-serial) which makes it useless for
> libguestfs.  Does any qemu model support virtio-serial?  Does any qemu
> model support PCI?  What, if anything, is the status of virt-mmio?
> 
> Can't we just add PCI to the qemu vexpress model, even if the real
> hardware doesn't have it?  (And does it matter what real hardware
> supports?  Can't we just define an uber-ARM-qemu-model that supports
> everything?)
> 
> Rich.
> 
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