From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933208Ab0J2LSL (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:18:11 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:42372 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759688Ab0J2LSI (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:18:08 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Implement a virtio GPU transport Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:48:00 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-22-generic; KDE/4.5.1; i686; ; ) Cc: Ian Molton , Avi Kivity , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, QEMU Developers References: <4CAC9CD1.2050601@collabora.co.uk> <4CBD7560.6080207@redhat.com> <4CC8226F.5080807@collabora.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4CC8226F.5080807@collabora.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010292148.01167.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:30:31 pm Ian Molton wrote: > On 19/10/10 11:39, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 10/19/2010 12:31 PM, Ian Molton wrote: > > >>> 2. should start with a patch to the virtio-pci spec to document what > >>> you're doing > >> > >> Where can I find that spec? > > > > http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/ > > Ok, but I'm not patching that until theres been some review. Fair enough; it's a bit of a PITA to patch, so it makes sense to get the details nailed down first. > There are links to the associated qemu and guest OS changes in my > original email. > > >> It doesnt, at present... It could be changed fairly easily ithout > >> breaking anything if that happens though. > > > > The hypervisor and the guest can be changed independently. The driver > > should be coded so that it doesn't depend on hypervisor implementation > > details. > > Fixed - updated patch tested and attached. OK. FWIW, I think this is an awesome idea. I understand others are skeptical, but this seems simple and if it works and you're happy to maintain it I'm happy to let you do it :) Cheers, Rusty.