Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

Carsten Otte
2007-11-27T10:13:31Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Unfortunately, we have to care for platform differences, subarch
> differences (vmx/svm), hypervisor differences (with virtio), and guest
> differences (Linux/Windows/pvLinux, 32/64). Much care is needed when
> designing the ABI here.
Yea, I agree.

> [actually thinking a bit, this is specific to the virtio pci binding;
> s390 will never see any of it]
You remember that we've lost the big debate around virtio in Tucson?
We intend to bind our virtio devices to PCI too, so that they look the
same in Linux userland across architectures.