Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] libqos support

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 07:53:24AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> This is a not completely polished version of libqos that includes PCI
>> support.  I haven't gone through the patches thoroughly yet so I've got
>> it marked as RFC.  It works and is functionally complete.  I know the
>> files are missing copyrights though and the commit messages need some
>> work.  I also haven't run checkpatch on the patches yet.
>
> The PCI support looks pretty close.  The minimum functionality that
> others can build on is the PCI support.  Merging the PCI support should
> be uncontroversial.
>
> The fw_cfg needs some patch reordering (best to introduce the fw_cfg pc
> code in a separate source file from the start instead of moving it
> later).

fw_cfg is needed in order to implement an alloc.  Alloc is needed in
order to do any form of DMA.

But I don't think it will be too hard to fix up this series into
something mergable.  The big issue was virtio support but now that
that's dropped, the rest is pretty easy.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Stefan