On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 01:58:35AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > 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
>From OVMF? -- MST