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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:20:10 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/4] virtio-mmio transport
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, "paul@codesourcery.com" <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 19:56 +0000, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 11/16/2011 12:41 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Pawel may have more detail, but to me the significant difference
> > is that virtio-mmio is an implementation of a specification extension
> > agreed with the virtio spec maintainers, whereas syborg doesn't seem
> > to be mentioned in the virtio spec anywhere, so I am unsure what it
> > is intended to be implementing.
> >
> > (There are some technical differences too, like virtio-mmio allowing
> > the guest to specify queue sizes and alignments; these mostly came
> > out of the process of agreeing the spec extension.)
>=20
> Correct.  Syborg virtio was something Paul Brook did bit is not an "offic=
ial"=20
> virtio transport as far as Linux or the spec is concerned.

Honestly, that's the first time I hear about it, and as I'm not allowed
to look at qemu code (legal reasons, just don't ask ;-) it's hard for me
to comment. But during the discussions about virtio-mmio, no one
mentioned it at all! Is it similar in ideas?

I do apologise if I jeopardised somebody's work, but it wasn't on
purpose...

Cheers!

Pawe=C5=82