From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
linux390@de.ibm.com, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>"Michael S. Tsirkin"
<mst@redhat.com>,
lguest@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] virtio: 64 bit features
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:55:42 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei58cfrd.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110411165525.GA1395@redhat.com>
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:55:25 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> Extend features to 64 bit so we can use more
> transport bits.
>
> Future patches add two new feature bits which would
> exhaust the supply of transport feature bits,
> so let's add bit 31 to tell the guest that
> there are now 64 worth of features.
>
> For PCI this also changes the config layout.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This was pretty much the way I imagined it would work. We need a patch
to the spec and a lot of cross testing...
Thanks!
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-11 16:55 [RFC][PATCH] virtio: 64 bit features Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-04-12 3:25 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2011-04-12 14:04 ` Christian Borntraeger
2011-04-12 14:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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