From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:36:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52568 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1492018Ab1GEWgT (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 00:36:19 +0200 Received: from hanvin-mobl4.sc.intel.com (hpa@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.zytor.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p65MZkqp029009 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:35:47 -0700 Message-ID: <4E1391C2.2090904@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:35:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ohad Ben-Cohen CC: Rusty Russell , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Grant Likely , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Xiantao Zhang , Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , Ralf Baechle , Alexander Graf , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Carsten Otte , Christian Borntraeger , linux390@de.ibm.com, Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , Paul Mundt , Chris Metcalf , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Russell King , John Stultz , Andrew Morton , kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too References: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> In-Reply-To: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 30582 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: hpa@zytor.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Return-Path: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3582 On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, > and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch > Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. > > Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications, > we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization > scope too. > Seems reasonable to me. -hpa From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:35:46 -0700 Message-ID: <4E1391C2.2090904@zytor.com> References: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Ohad Ben-Cohen Cc: Carsten Otte , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Heiko Carstens , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Grant Likely , Paul Mackerras , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Alexander Graf , Christian Borntraeger , Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , Russell King , Xiantao Zhang , Fenghua Yu , Arnd Bergmann , Rusty Russell , Chris Metcalf , John Stultz , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, > and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch > Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. > > Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications, > we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization > scope too. > Seems reasonable to me. -hpa From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.zytor.com (terminus.zytor.com [IPv6:2001:1868:205::10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F945B6F7A for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:36:29 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4E1391C2.2090904@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:35:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ohad Ben-Cohen Subject: Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too References: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> In-Reply-To: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Carsten Otte , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Heiko Carstens , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Paul Mackerras , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Alexander Graf , Christian Borntraeger , Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , Russell King , Xiantao Zhang , Fenghua Yu , Arnd Bergmann , Rusty Russell , Chris Metcalf , John Stultz , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Tony Luck , kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , Paul Mundt , Martin Schwidefsky , linux390@de.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, > and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch > Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. > > Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications, > we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization > scope too. > Seems reasonable to me. -hpa From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:35:46 -0700 Subject: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too In-Reply-To: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> References: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> Message-ID: <4E1391C2.2090904@zytor.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, > and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch > Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. > > Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications, > we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization > scope too. > Seems reasonable to me. -hpa From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:35:46 -0700 Message-ID: <4E1391C2.2090904@zytor.com> References: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Carsten Otte , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Heiko Carstens , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Grant Likely , Paul Mackerras , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Alexander Graf , Christian Borntraeger , Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , Russell King , Xiantao Zhang , Fenghua Yu , Arnd Bergmann , Rusty Russell , Chris Metcalf , John Stultz , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner < To: Ohad Ben-Cohen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1309874774-31689-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, > and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch > Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. > > Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications, > we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virtualization > scope too. > Seems reasonable to me. -hpa