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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:04:28 +0200
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/11] qemu: towards virtio-1 host
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To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org

On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:24:22 -0700
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> On 10/07/2014 07:39 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > This patchset aims to get us some way to implement virtio-1 compliant
> > and transitional devices in qemu. Branch available at
> > 
> > git://github.com/cohuck/qemu virtio-1
> > 
> > I've mainly focused on:
> > - endianness handling
> > - extended feature bits
> > - virtio-ccw new/changed commands
> 
> At the risk of some distraction, would it be worth thinking about a
> solution to the IOMMU bypassing mess as part of this?

I think that is a whole different issue. virtio-1 is basically done - we
just need to implement it - while the IOMMU/DMA stuff certainly needs
more discussion. Therefore, I'd like to defer to the other discussion
thread here.