Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

Nothing, I'm packing up the 1st pull request.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:18:51PM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Friendly ping.  3.1.0 is tagged now, so there's anything else
> blocking this series?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 05:57:02PM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > Existing modern-only device types are not being touched by v3, as
> > they don't need separate variants.  However, I plan to implement
> > separate cleanups in the code that calls virtio_pci_force_virtio_1(),
> > first, and then propose additional changes (e.g. deprecating
> > disable-legacy and disable-modern in those device types).
> > 
> > Changes v3 -> v4:
> > * Trivial comment fixes (Cornelia Huck)
> > * Test code update (Caio Carrara)
> > 
> > Changes v2 -> v3:
> > * Split into two separate patches (type registration helper
> >   and introduction of new types)
> > * Rewrote virtio_pci_types_register() completely:
> >   * Replaced magic generation of type names with explicit fields in
> >     VirtioPCIDeviceTypeInfo
> >   * Removed modern_only field (not necessary anymore)
> >   * Don't register a separate base type unless necessary
> > 
> > Changes v1 -> v2:
> > * Removed *-0.9 devices.  Nobody will want to use them, if
> >   transitional devices work with legacy drivers
> >   (Gerd Hoffmann, Michael S. Tsirkin)
> > * Drop virtio version from name: rename -1.0-transitional to
> >   -transitional (Michael S. Tsirkin)
> > * Renamed -1.0 to -non-transitional
> > * Don't add any extra variants to modern-only device types
> >   (they don't need it)
> > * Fix typo on TYPE_VIRTIO_INPUT_HOST_PCI (crash reported by
> >   Cornelia Huck)
> > * No need to change cast macros for modern-only devices
> > * Rename virtio_register_types() to virtio_pci_types_register()
> > 
> > Original patch description:
> > 
> > Many of the current virtio-*-pci device types actually represent
> > 3 different types of devices:
> > * virtio 1.0 non-transitional devices
> > * virtio 1.0 transitional devices
> > * virtio 0.9 ("legacy device" in virtio 1.0 terminology)
> > 
> > That would be just an annoyance if it didn't break our device/bus
> > compatibility QMP interfaces.  With this multi-purpose device
> > type, there's no way to tell management software that
> > transitional devices and legacy devices require a Conventional
> > PCI bus.
> > 
> > The multi-purpose device types would also prevent us from telling
> > management software what's the PCI vendor/device ID for them,
> > because their PCI IDs change at runtime depending on the bus
> > where they were plugged.
> > 
> > This patch adds separate device types for each of those virtio
> > device flavors:
> > 
> > * virtio-*-pci: the existing multi-purpose device types
> > * virtio-*-pci-transitional: virtio-1.0 device supporting legacy drivers
> > * virtio-*-pci-non-transitional: modern-only
> > 
> > Reference to previous discussion that originated this idea:
> >   https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg558389.html
> > 
> > Eduardo Habkost (2):
> >   virtio: Helper for registering virtio device types
> >   virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices
> > 
> >  hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h             |  78 +++++++--
> >  hw/display/virtio-gpu-pci.c        |   7 +-
> >  hw/display/virtio-vga.c            |   7 +-
> >  hw/virtio/virtio-crypto-pci.c      |   7 +-
> >  hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c             | 267 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >  tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py | 176 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  6 files changed, 452 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.18.0.rc1.1.g3f1ff2140
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Eduardo