From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] VirtIO RNG
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:32:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004131632.25820.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC482A6.4040504@collabora.co.uk>
> So, rather than bike-shedding, how about making some kind of decision?
Ok, let me make this simple.
Features such as rate limiting and EGD protocol translation should not be part
of individual device emulation. They are part of the host interface, not the
guest machine. If you really want these in qemu then they should be
implemented as part of the chardev layer.
It may be a bit more work to implement these properly. However I'm not going
to accept a half-assed implementation just because someone wrote it.
A direct result of this is that virtio-rng degenerates to a crippled virtual
serial port. We already have a virtual serial port implementation designed for
exactly this kind of application. IMHO virtio-rng is a complete waste of time
and space.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-13 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 14:05 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] VirtIO RNG Ian Molton
2010-03-30 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] " Ian Molton
2010-03-30 14:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] " Ian Molton
2010-04-01 12:17 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-01 12:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-01 14:03 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-02 10:13 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-03 15:06 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-13 14:41 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-13 15:01 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-13 15:32 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-04-20 15:15 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-20 16:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-20 19:52 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-20 20:11 ` Blue Swirl
2010-04-20 20:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-20 21:31 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-20 21:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 7:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-04-21 9:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 12:34 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-21 13:55 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-04-22 19:06 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-22 21:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-23 10:17 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-24 1:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-24 8:58 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-23 8:27 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-04-23 9:28 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-23 14:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-04-23 15:49 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-23 17:32 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-24 9:16 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-02 10:15 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-02 10:07 ` Ian Molton
2010-05-03 17:56 ` Anthony Liguori
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