From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cornelia Huck Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/11] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:04:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20141008110428.6fc78115.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> References: <1412692807-12398-1-git-send-email-cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> <54349246.6000905@amacapital.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Andy Lutomirski Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54349246.6000905@amacapital.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:24:22 -0700 Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On 10/07/2014 07:39 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > This patchset aims to get us some way to implement virtio-1 compliant > > and transitional devices in qemu. Branch available at > > > > git://github.com/cohuck/qemu virtio-1 > > > > I've mainly focused on: > > - endianness handling > > - extended feature bits > > - virtio-ccw new/changed commands > > At the risk of some distraction, would it be worth thinking about a > solution to the IOMMU bypassing mess as part of this? I think that is a whole different issue. virtio-1 is basically done - we just need to implement it - while the IOMMU/DMA stuff certainly needs more discussion. Therefore, I'd like to defer to the other discussion thread here.