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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
	"Erik Schilling" <erik.schilling@linaro.org>,
	"Fam Zheng" <fam@euphon.net>,
	"Mathieu Poirier" <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
	"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	"Hanna Reitz" <hreitz@redhat.com>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>, "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Eduardo Habkost" <eduardo@habkost.net>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Mark Cave-Ayland" <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,
	"Viresh Kumar" <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	virtio-fs@redhat.com, "Gonglei (Arei)" <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"Raphael Norwitz" <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 6/6] docs/system: add a basic enumeration of vhost-user devices
Date: Mon,  9 Oct 2023 10:59:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231009095937.195728-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231009095937.195728-1-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 a80e95a48a..0f9eec3f00 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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-09 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-09  9:59 [PATCH v4 0/6] virtio: cleanup vhost-user-generic and reduce c&p Alex Bennée
2023-10-09  9:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] virtio: split into vhost-user-base and vhost-user-device Alex Bennée
2023-10-10 15:08   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2023-10-09  9:59 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-rng from vhost-user-base Alex Bennée
2023-10-09 13:07   ` Manos Pitsidianakis
2023-10-09 13:48     ` Alex Bennée
2023-10-09  9:59 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-gpio " Alex Bennée
2023-10-09 10:59   ` Viresh Kumar
2023-10-09  9:59 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-i2c " Alex Bennée
2023-10-09 10:59   ` Viresh Kumar
2023-10-09  9:59 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] hw/virtio: add vhost-user-snd and virtio-snd-pci devices Alex Bennée
2023-10-09  9:59 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2023-10-09 13:38   ` [PATCH v4 6/6] docs/system: add a basic enumeration of vhost-user devices Manos Pitsidianakis
2023-10-10 15:14 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] virtio: cleanup vhost-user-generic and reduce c&p Mark Cave-Ayland

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