Re: virtio & hypercall interface?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Yes, that's what I'd like to see too.  Signal a channel.

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