Re: virtio & hypercall interface?

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Dor Laor wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 	I've finally started looking at Dor's git tree, and it struck me
>>     
> that
>   
>> it conflicts with Anthony's hypercall patches.  FWIW I like Anthony's
>> patching thing, and don't really care about arg order.  It'd be nice if
>> we could pull in the same direction tho 8)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rusty.
>>     
>
> Good news you're looking at my tree, since the forum I didn't do much
> since I had to catch up some gazlion other tasks, never the less
> starting on Sunday I'm back again.
>
> Actually, I wanted to rebase my hypercalls over Anhtony's too (except
> for allowing userspace handling).

I thought we discussed just providing a signaling message to userspace 
for virtio?  It's not strictly necessary to expose hypercalls to 
userspace in order to implement a virtio backend in userspace.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>  I paused it since Anhtony's patch
> didn't apply. 
> Best regards, Dor.
>   


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