The 'q35' machine type implements an Intel Series 3 chipset,
of which there are several variants:
https://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/316966.pdf
The key difference between the 82P35 MCH ('p35', PCI device ID 0x29c0)
and 82Q35 GMCH ('q35', PCI device ID 0x29b0) variants is that the latter
has an integrated graphics adapter. QEMU does not implement integrated
graphics, so uses the PCI ID for the 82P35 chipset, despite calling the
machine type 'q35'. Thus we rename the PCI device ID constant to reflect
reality, to avoid confusing future developers. The new name more closely
matches what pci.ids reports it to be:
$ grep P35 /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids | grep 29
29c0 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
29c1 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port
29c4 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express MEI Controller
29c5 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express MEI Controller
29c6 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PT IDER Controller
29c7 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express Serial KT Controller
$ grep Q35 /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids | grep 29
29b0 82Q35 Express DRAM Controller
29b1 82Q35 Express PCI Express Root Port
29b2 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
29b3 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
29b4 82Q35 Express MEI Controller
29b5 82Q35 Express MEI Controller
29b6 82Q35 Express PT IDER Controller
29b7 82Q35 Express Serial KT Controller
Arguably the QEMU machine type should be named 'p35'. At this point in
time, however, it is not worth the churn for management applications &
documentation to worry about renaming it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180830105757.10577-1-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
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