Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add SCMI vhost-user VIRTIO device

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com> writes:

> This patch series adds a vhost-user VIRTIO device for SCMI.
> It's similar to other similar vhost-user VIRTIO devices.
>
> I'm aware of the work in progress by Alex Bennée to simplify similar devices
> and avoid excessive code duplication.  I think the SCMI device support
> doesn't bring anything special and it can be rebased on the given work
> if/once it is merged.

\o/ - I'll try and get the next iteration done in the next few weeks.
Out of interest have you tested your scmi backend with those patches? Oh
and also which backend are you using?

Vincent did a bunch of work over the last year or so on SCMI although in
his case the backend was a RTOS running in a separate domain using some
shared memory between the SCMI domain and a couple of guests.

> Milan Zamazal (4):
>   hw/virtio: Add boilerplate for vhost-user-scmi device
>   hw/virtio: Add vhost-user-scmi-pci boilerplate
>   tests/qtest: Fix a comment typo in vhost-user-test.c
>   tests/qtest: enable tests for virtio-scmi
>
>  MAINTAINERS                         |   7 +
>  hw/virtio/Kconfig                   |   5 +
>  hw/virtio/meson.build               |   2 +
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-scmi-pci.c     |  68 +++++++
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-scmi.c         | 306 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-scmi.h |  30 +++
>  tests/qtest/libqos/meson.build      |   1 +
>  tests/qtest/libqos/virtio-scmi.c    | 174 ++++++++++++++++
>  tests/qtest/libqos/virtio-scmi.h    |  34 ++++
>  tests/qtest/vhost-user-test.c       |  46 ++++-
>  10 files changed, 672 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-scmi-pci.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-scmi.c
>  create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-scmi.h
>  create mode 100644 tests/qtest/libqos/virtio-scmi.c
>  create mode 100644 tests/qtest/libqos/virtio-scmi.h


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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro