From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35407) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tkxim-00052E-M5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:00:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tkxii-0005UI-LC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:00:36 -0500 Received: from mail-ie0-f171.google.com ([209.85.223.171]:54484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tkxii-0005UA-HC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:00:32 -0500 Received: by mail-ie0-f171.google.com with SMTP id 17so891275iea.2 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:00:31 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121218131043.GA26110@redhat.com> References: <1354887155-32281-1-git-send-email-fred.konrad@greensocs.com> <20121217154508.GA28712@redhat.com> <20121218110153.GC22586@redhat.com> <50D05898.9030506@redhat.com> <20121218131043.GA26110@redhat.com> From: Peter Maydell Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:00:11 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, e.voevodin@samsung.com, mark.burton@greensocs.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, Paolo Bonzini , afaerber@suse.de, fred.konrad@greensocs.com On 18 December 2012 13:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > And what makes virtio so special anyway? e1000 can be used without > exposing users to internal buses and all kind of nastiness like this. Congratulations, you're using an architecture that has a pluggable discoverable bus implemented by just about all machines using that architecture. That makes things much easier for you. -- PMM