On 12/11/2014 16:39, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Definitely, I think having the OS manually program the BARs only makes sense > > in an environment where you don't have a full-featured boot loader or you > > don't trust it. In servers and virtual machines, the PCI bus should always > > come > > fully set up. This also implies that the OS should not have to deal with > > registers for setting up the translation between PCI and system address > > ranges. > > It seems to me like complicated stuff like that definitely belongs > in the UEFI/bootloader blob, though. I'd rather QEMU just modelled > the hardware and let the guest (or the firmware, which is guest > code from QEMU's point of view) set it up however it wants.
It definitely doesn't belong in QEMU! Paolo
