From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757759AbXK0KNb (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:13:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753475AbXK0KNX (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:13:23 -0500 Received: from mout0.freenet.de ([195.4.92.90]:42086 "EHLO mout0.freenet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753352AbXK0KNW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:13:22 -0500 Message-ID: <474BEDAB.3000305@de.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:12:59 +0100 From: Carsten Otte Reply-To: carsteno@de.ibm.com Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?IBM_Deutschland_Entwicklung_GmbH=2CVor?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?sitzender_des_Aufsichtsrats=3A_Johann_Weihen=2CGe?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?sch=E4ftsf=FChrung=3A_Herbert_Kircher=2CSitz_der_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gesellschaft=3A_B=F6blingen=2CRegistergericht=3A_Amts?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?gericht_Stuttgart=2C_HRB_243294?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071009) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avi Kivity CC: carsteno@de.ibm.com, Eric Van Hensbergen , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lguest , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device References: <11944899922822-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <11944900141678-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <11944900152750-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <11944900163817-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4742F6B7.20503@qumranet.com> <474300AD.4060509@us.ibm.com> <4743076F.8000105@qumranet.com> <47435CCB.1050506@us.ibm.com> <4743DAA4.70800@qumranet.com> <4747051C.3090903@us.ibm.com> <4747122F.1070905@qumranet.com> <474B1BF3.20901@us.ibm.com> <474BDD28.7050801@qumranet.com> <474BDEDE.6060603@de.ibm.com> <474BE319.502@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <474BE319.502@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Warning: de.ibm.com is listed at abuse.rfc-ignorant.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.