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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Proposal for virtio standardization.
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:16:51 +1030
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Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> writes:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:59:33 +0930
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> 3) Various clarifications, formalizations and cleanups to the spec text,
>>    and possibly elimination of old deprecated features.
>> 
>> 4) The only significant change to the spec is that we use PCI
>>    capabilities, so we can have infinite feature bits.
>>    (see
>> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2011-December/019198.html)
>
> "Infinite" only applies to virtio-pci, no?

Yes, you already have "infinite" feature bits for ccw, as does every bus
we did since PCI.

> Sounds like a good idea. I'll be happy to review the spec with an eye
> to virtio-ccw.

Thanks!
Rusty.