Re: virtio scsi host draft specification, v3

Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-10T12:14:04Z

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:59:27 +0200, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 06/09/2011 01:28 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> >> >  after some preliminary discussion on the QEMU mailing list, I present a
>> >> >  draft specification for a virtio-based SCSI host (controller, HBA, you
>> >> >  name it).
>> >
>> > OK, I'm impressed.  This is very well written and it doesn't make any of
>> > the obvious mistakes wrt. virtio.
>>
>> Thanks very much, and thanks to those who corrected my early mistakes.
>>
>> > I assume you have an implementation, as well?
>>
>> Unfortunately not; "we're working on it", which means I should start in
>> July when I come back from vacation.
>>
>> Do you prefer to wait for one before I make a patch to the LyX source?
>> In the meanwhile, can you reserve a subsystem ID for me?
>>
>> Paolo
>
> Sure, you can have the next subsystem ID.
>
> It's a pain to patch once it's in LyX, so let's get the implementation
> base on what you posted here an see how much it changes first...

Paolo, I'll switch the Linux guest LLD and QEMU virtio-scsi skeleton
that I have to comply with the spec. Does this sound good or did you
want to write these from scratch?

Stefan