From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: virtio & hypercall interface? Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:45:49 -0500 Message-ID: <46E9A17D.5040205@us.ibm.com> References: <1189664514.32322.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <64F9B87B6B770947A9F8391472E032160DA17EF2@ehost011-8.exch011.intermedia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Dor Laor Return-path: In-Reply-To: <64F9B87B6B770947A9F8391472E032160DA17EF2-yEcIvxbTEBqsx+V+t5oei8rau4O3wl8o3fe8/T/H7NteoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/