From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mathiasen@gmail.com
Subject: Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:31:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaslbiecxg.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4611652F.700@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:18:55 -0700")
> I would therefore like to propose that the Linux Foundation register a
> PCI ID for use by LANANA ($3000/year), and we set up a LANANA registry
> for these device IDs, together with a description of the device
> interface each of them expect. Similarly, a Subsystem ID registry can
> be used (for virtualization vendors which don't have their own VID
> already) to distinguish different implementations.
Sounds like a very good idea.
> Obviously, anyone who adheres to the published interface can use one
> of these VID:DIDs -- as far as I'm concerned, even hardware vendors;
> we'll use the SID to distinguish between implementations.
I think for this to work, some attempt at a conformance testing
program is required...
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 20:18 A set of "standard" virtual devices? H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-02 20:31 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-04-02 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-02 21:49 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-02 20:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-02 21:12 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-02 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-02 21:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-02 21:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-02 21:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-04-02 22:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-02 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-02 22:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-02 22:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 9:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 10:41 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 13:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 14:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 16:07 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 8:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-04-03 8:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-03 9:17 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 9:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-03 10:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 15:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-04-03 17:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-03 19:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 19:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-03 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 21:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-03 21:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 21:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 22:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-04 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 13:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-04 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 20:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
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