From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:01:01 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090831143101.GA16943@amit-x200.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9BDC59.1090801@codemonkey.ws>
On (Mon) Aug 31 2009 [09:21:13], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Amit Shah wrote:
>> Can you please explain your rationale for being so rigid about merging
>> the two drivers?
>>
>
> Because they do the same thing. I'm not going to constantly rehash
> this. It's been explained multiple times.
It hardly looks like the same thing each passing day.
I've also mentioned that each minimal virtio device would start out
looking the same.
We're ending up having to compromise on the performance or functionality
or simplicity the devices just because of this restriction.
> If there are implementation issues within the Linux drivers because of
> peculiarities of hvc then hvc needs to be fixed. It has nothing to do
> with the driver ABI which is what qemu cares about.
I'd welcome that effort as well. But we all know that's not going to
happen anytime soon.
Also, there's no driver ABI for virtio-serial yet.
Amit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-31 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-25 6:17 [Qemu-devel] Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Amit Shah
2009-08-25 6:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio_console: Add interface for guest and host communication Amit Shah
2009-08-25 6:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] char: Emit 'CLOSED' events on char device close Amit Shah
2009-08-25 6:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: rename dvq to ovq Amit Shah
2009-08-25 8:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio-console: Add interface for generic guest-host communication Amit Shah
2009-08-26 11:27 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Amit Shah
2009-08-26 15:45 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-27 4:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-27 6:51 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-27 9:08 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-27 9:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-27 11:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hvc_console: provide (un)locked version for hvc_resize() Hendrik Brueckner
2009-08-29 1:15 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Jamie Lokier
2009-08-27 5:04 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-27 6:52 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-27 14:13 ` Ryan Arnold
2009-08-28 17:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-30 10:10 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-30 12:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-30 13:17 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-31 13:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-31 13:51 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-31 14:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-31 14:31 ` Amit Shah [this message]
2009-08-31 15:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-31 16:19 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-31 16:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-21 5:20 ` Rusty Russell
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