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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Implement a virtio GPU transport
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:48:00 +1030
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Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:30:31 pm Ian Molton wrote:
> On 19/10/10 11:39, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 10/19/2010 12:31 PM, Ian Molton wrote:
> 
> >>> 2. should start with a patch to the virtio-pci spec to document what
> >>> you're doing
> >>
> >> Where can I find that spec?
> >
> > http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/
> 
> Ok, but I'm not patching that until theres been some review.

Fair enough; it's a bit of a PITA to patch, so it makes sense to get the
details nailed down first.

> There are links to the associated qemu and guest OS changes in my 
> original email.
> 
> >> It doesnt, at present... It could be changed fairly easily ithout
> >> breaking anything if that happens though.
> >
> > The hypervisor and the guest can be changed independently. The driver
> > should be coded so that it doesn't depend on hypervisor implementation
> > details.
> 
> Fixed - updated patch tested and attached.

OK. FWIW, I think this is an awesome idea.  I understand others are skeptical,
but this seems simple and if it works and you're happy to maintain it I'm
happy to let you do it :)

Cheers,
Rusty.