From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Eduardo Habkost" <eduardo@habkost.net>,
"Viresh Kumar" <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
"Mathieu Poirier" <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
"Gonglei (Arei)" <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Erik Schilling" <erik.schilling@linaro.org>,
"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Mark Cave-Ayland" <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,
"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
virtio-fs@redhat.com,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 13/13] docs/system: add a basic enumeration of vhost-user devices
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:21:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230418162140.373219-14-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230418162140.373219-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Make it clear the vhost-user-device is intended for expert use only.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
v2
- make clear vhost-user-device for expert use
---
docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst | 2 ++
docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst
index a145d4105c..ead1405326 100644
--- a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst
+++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _vhost_user_rng:
+
QEMU vhost-user-rng - RNG emulation
===================================
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
index 86128114fa..7038cece3e 100644
--- a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,47 @@ to the guest. The code is mostly boilerplate although each device has
a ``chardev`` option which specifies the ID of the ``--chardev``
device that connects via a socket to the vhost-user *daemon*.
+Each device will have an virtio-mmio and virtio-pci variant. See your
+platform details for what sort of virtio bus to use.
+
+.. list-table:: vhost-user devices
+ :widths: 20 20 60
+ :header-rows: 1
+
+ * - Device
+ - Type
+ - Notes
+ * - vhost-user-device
+ - Generic Development Device
+ - You must manually specify ``virtio-id`` and the correct ``num_vqs``. Intended for expert use.
+ * - vhost-user-blk
+ - Block storage
+ -
+ * - vhost-user-fs
+ - File based storage driver
+ - See https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd
+ * - vhost-user-scsi
+ - SCSI based storage
+ - See contrib/vhost-user/scsi
+ * - vhost-user-gpio
+ - Proxy gpio pins to host
+ - See https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device
+ * - vhost-user-i2c
+ - Proxy i2c devices to host
+ - See https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device
+ * - vhost-user-input
+ - Generic input driver
+ - See contrib/vhost-user-input
+ * - vhost-user-rng
+ - Entropy driver
+ - :ref:`vhost_user_rng`
+ * - vhost-user-gpu
+ - GPU driver
+ -
+ * - vhost-user-vsock
+ - Socket based communication
+ - See https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device
+
vhost-user daemon
=================
--
2.39.2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-18 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-18 16:21 [PATCH v2 00/13] virtio: add vhost-user-generic and reduce copy and paste Alex Bennée
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] include: attempt to document device_class_set_props Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 9:21 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-05-23 20:30 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] include/hw: document the device_class_set_parent_* fns Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 9:24 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] hw/virtio: fix typo in VIRTIO_CONFIG_IRQ_IDX comments Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 9:25 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-05-23 20:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] include/hw/virtio: document virtio_notify_config Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 9:27 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-05-23 20:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] include/hw/virtio: add kerneldoc for virtio_init Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 9:29 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-05-23 20:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] include/hw/virtio: document some more usage of notifiers Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 9:32 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-05-23 20:52 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] virtio: add vhost-user-base and a generic vhost-user-device Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 9:47 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] virtio: add PCI stub for vhost-user-device Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 9:54 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-rng from vhost-user-device Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 10:09 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] hw/virtio: add config support to vhost-user-device Alex Bennée
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-gpio from vhost-user-device Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 10:12 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-04-18 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-i2c from vhost-user-base Alex Bennée
2023-04-20 10:18 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-04-18 16:21 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
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