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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/4] virtio-mmio transport
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:41:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-aTc_hFZDfhfDtZ4Urg82Y7DKAnOLHoA_cp1L8st0U9A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC3C9B1.5050109@redhat.com>

On 16 November 2011 14:33, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 03:55 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>
>> This set of patches implements the QEMU end of the MMIO virtio transport
>> (as specified by Appendix X of the latest virtio spec from here
>> http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/virtio.pdf
>> and implemented by patches which I think are going into Linux 3.2).
>
> How does this compare against hw/syborg_virtio.c?

Pawel may have more detail, but to me the significant difference
is that virtio-mmio is an implementation of a specification extension
agreed with the virtio spec maintainers, whereas syborg doesn't seem
to be mentioned in the virtio spec anywhere, so I am unsure what it
is intended to be implementing.

(There are some technical differences too, like virtio-mmio allowing
the guest to specify queue sizes and alignments; these mostly came
out of the process of agreeing the spec extension.)

-- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14 14:55 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/4] virtio-mmio transport Peter Maydell
2011-11-14 14:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/4] virtio: Add support for guest setting of queue size Peter Maydell
2011-11-14 14:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/4] virtio: Support transports which can specify the vring alignment Peter Maydell
2011-11-14 14:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 3/4] Add MMIO based virtio transport Peter Maydell
2011-11-14 14:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 4/4] hw/vexpress.c: Add MMIO " Peter Maydell
2011-11-14 15:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/4] virtio-mmio transport Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-11-16 14:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-16 18:41   ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2011-11-16 19:56     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-17 11:20       ` Pawel Moll
2011-11-17 11:44         ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-09 15:16       ` Paul Brook
2011-12-09 15:57         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-12  2:52           ` Paul Brook
2011-12-12 11:16             ` Pawel Moll
2011-12-12 14:45               ` Paul Brook
2011-12-12 14:51                 ` Pawel Moll
2011-12-16  5:36                 ` Rusty Russell
2011-12-12 12:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-12 12:28   ` Pawel Moll
2011-12-12 13:12     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-12-12 13:19       ` Pawel Moll
2011-12-12 15:11     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-12 15:18       ` Peter Maydell
2011-12-12 15:21       ` Pawel Moll

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