Re: [RFC/PATCH 15/15] guest: virtio device support, and kvm hypercalls

Avi Kivity
2008-03-21T10:44:27Z

Carsten Otte wrote:
> Currently we dont have PCI on s390. Making virtio_pci usable for s390 seems
> more complicated that providing an own stub. This virtio stub is similar to
> the lguest one, the memory for the descriptors and the device detection is made
> via additional mapped memory on top of the guest storage. We use an external
> interrupt with extint code 1237 for host->guest notification.
>

So, sanity won in the end.

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