From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
christoffer.dall@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 12/19] Introduce virtio-testdev
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:56:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53999582.4000806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140612113000.GF6646@dhcp-27-201.brq.redhat.com>
Il 12/06/2014 13:30, Andrew Jones ha scritto:
>> >
>> > Hi Drew,
>> >
>> > quite a few months ago I had promised to help with an alternative
>> > implementation that does not require a new virtio device (which would
>> > in turn need registration of the device ID and so on.
> Does it? I assumed we'd be fine just using 0xffff (which I understood
> from the spec to be reserved for development purposes).
That actually means "use 65535 until you've requested a unique id".
I'd rather use 0xf2d6 (a random high number) than 65535, even though
that's out-of-spec.
Paolo
> I guess a
> potential problem would be if this device is also used at the same
> time as an experimental device that is also making that assumption,
> but that'd be easily fixed by the developer who's doing the
> experimenting.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-12 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-11 14:01 [PATCH v5 00/19] kvm-unit-tests/arm: initial drop Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 01/19] remove unused files Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 02/19] makefile and run_tests tweaks Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 03/19] clean root dir of all x86-ness Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 10:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 10:40 ` Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 10:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 10:54 ` Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 04/19] add distclean target and gitignore more Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 10:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-14 13:17 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 05/19] add 'make cscope' support Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 07/19] libfdt: get libfdt to build Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 08/19] add support for Linux device trees Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 9:19 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 09/19] libcflat: add abort() and assert() Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 10:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 11:07 ` Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 11:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 10/19] Introduce asm-generic/*.h files Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 11/19] add minimal virtio support for devtree virtio-mmio Andrew Jones
2014-06-14 13:30 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 12/19] Introduce virtio-testdev Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 10:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 11:30 ` Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 11:56 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 13/19] libcflat: clean up libcflat.h and add string.h Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 10:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 11:12 ` Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 14/19] printf: support field padding Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 15/19] arm: initial drop Andrew Jones
2014-06-14 14:16 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-06-16 7:36 ` Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 16/19] arm: Add spinlock implementation Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 17/19] arm: Add IO accessors to avoid register-writeback Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 18/19] arm: add useful headers from the Linux kernel Andrew Jones
2014-06-11 14:01 ` [PATCH v5 19/19] arm: vectors support Andrew Jones
[not found] ` <1402495294-30737-7-git-send-email-drjones@redhat.com>
2014-06-12 10:44 ` [PATCH v5 06/19] libfdt: Import libfdt source Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 10:59 ` Andrew Jones
2014-06-12 14:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 11:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 00/19] kvm-unit-tests/arm: initial drop Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-14 14:44 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-06-16 7:46 ` Andrew Jones
2014-06-16 7:56 ` Christoffer Dall
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