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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:15:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] New virtio device specification
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To: Christian Pinto <c.pinto@virtualopensystems.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, Baptiste Reynal <b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com>, Jani Kokkonen <Jani.Kokkonen@huawei.com>, Claudio Fontana <Claudio.Fontana@huawei.com>, VirtualOpenSystems Technical Team <tech@virtualopensystems.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:01:05 +0200
Christian Pinto <c.pinto@virtualopensystems.com> wrote:

> I am writing to understand how to start the procedure to include this
> device in
> the virtio specification and get a virtio device ID assigned.

The best way is to prepare some patches against the standard doc (svn
tree here:
https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/virtio/):
- one patch reserving a device id
- one patch actually specifying the new device