From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Avishay Traeger <avishay@il.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: add block topology support
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:19:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110731181905.GA14288@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ux84bfp.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:22:42PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I guess you could just remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECTOR_MAX from the spec.
> > Linux did not implement it, and virtualbox does not have virtio block
> > support at all. Are there any other known users, who might have
> > implemented the VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECTOR_MAX feature?
>
> Did qemu implement it? If not, we'll simply kill it, and pretend it
> never happened...
It was never added to either qemu or the kernel. It would really help
if we had a copy of the spec in a readable format (that is plain text)
in major implementations of virtio like qemu and the kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-31 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-29 19:01 [PATCH] virtio_blk: add block topology support Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-30 4:59 ` Rusty Russell
2010-01-30 20:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-01 1:10 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-14 23:36 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2011-07-21 7:53 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-29 19:09 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2011-07-30 4:52 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-31 18:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-08-01 5:22 ` Rusty Russell
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