Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio documentation or BSD licensed driver?

[higepon <higepon@gmail.com>]

Hi. Thank you.

> There's some on the Documents page of the kvm wiki.

I found this page and attached pdf.
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio

But not enough.

> The ACM
> pdf is actually very informative, but does include some code snippets from
> the headers. I don't know what license the header code is under.

It's good document.
And as far as I know Linux's virio headers are BSD licensed.

> Fwiw, I don't know how much virtio will buy you over the e1000 emulation.

Sure.
I want to compare and choose which to use and implement.

I still need more documents, if anybody knows please let me know.

Cheers.


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com> wrote:
> There's some on the Documents page of the kvm wiki. The virtio code
> walkthrough actually doesn't have any code in it. The other docs do. The ACM
> pdf is actually very informative, but does include some code snippets from
> the headers. I don't know what license the header code is under.
>
> Fwiw, I don't know how much virtio will buy you over the e1000 emulation.
>
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> On May 3, 2009, at 11:05 PM, higepon wrote:
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>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm developer of Mona OS (http://www.monaos.org).
>> Mona OS is testd and ran on QEMU.
>>
>> We have a plan to implement virtio_net driver for our OS.
>> Since Mona OS is MIT/X license, we can't use or see Linux's virtio
>> drivers.
>>
>> Is there any
>> - interface documentation for virtio?
>> - BSD licensed drivers?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> ---
>> MINOWA Taro(Higepon)
>>
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