From: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: john.cooper@redhat.com, Marc Haber <mh+qemu-devel@zugschlus.de>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio block device and sysfs
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:33:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA79BDD.7020303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100322162441.GA5727@shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> john cooper wrote:
>> All that said, I like the alternate choice of adding a
>> special virtio request far better. It is actually simpler
>> (and more maintainable IMO) than going through the
>> gyrations of stuffing the S/N data through PCI config
>> space.
>
> And it needn't have a 20 character limit.
Technically yes it can be longer. Although IIRC the
20/21 byte assumption is fairly entrenched in
related code. It may also be encouraged if the ATA
interface is used to expose the data (under windows
for instance).
-john
--
john.cooper@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-06 22:42 [Qemu-devel] virtio block device and sysfs Marc Haber
2010-03-09 1:17 ` jvrao
2010-03-09 8:21 ` Marc Haber
2010-03-09 20:04 ` jvrao
2010-03-09 20:06 ` jvrao
2010-03-09 21:15 ` Marc Haber
2010-03-09 21:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-21 16:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-22 6:26 ` john cooper
2010-03-22 12:42 ` Marc Haber
2010-03-22 14:59 ` john cooper
2010-03-25 5:30 ` john cooper
2010-06-29 18:15 ` Marc Haber
2010-06-29 18:03 ` john cooper
2010-06-29 20:20 ` Marc Haber
2010-06-29 18:33 ` Ryan Harper
2010-06-29 18:36 ` Marc Haber
2010-06-29 18:36 ` Marc Haber
2010-06-30 7:01 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-09-13 8:55 ` Marc Haber
2010-09-13 14:34 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-14 7:43 ` Marc Haber
2011-03-10 12:14 ` Marc Haber
2010-03-22 12:38 ` Marc Haber
2010-03-22 14:22 ` john cooper
2010-03-22 16:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-22 16:33 ` john cooper [this message]
2010-04-22 20:30 ` Marc Haber
2010-04-22 20:48 ` john cooper
2010-03-22 15:14 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-22 20:33 ` Marc Haber
2010-03-22 14:46 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-22 14:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-20 18:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
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