From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-7730-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FA5985E29 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:01:45 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:01:25 +0200 From: Jean-Philippe Brucker Message-ID: <20200827080125.GC3399702@myrica> References: <20200821131540.2801801-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org> <20200826092542-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200826092542-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Add virtio-iommu built-in topology Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kevin.tian@intel.com, sebastien.boeuf@intel.com, bhelgaas@google.com, jasowang@redhat.com List-ID: On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 09:26:02AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 03:15:34PM +0200, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote: > > Add a topology description to the virtio-iommu driver and enable x86 > > platforms. > > > > Since [v2] we have made some progress on adding ACPI support for > > virtio-iommu, which is the preferred boot method on x86. It will be a > > new vendor-agnostic table describing para-virtual topologies in a > > minimal format. However some platforms don't use either ACPI or DT for > > booting (for example microvm), and will need the alternative topology > > description method proposed here. In addition, since the process to get > > a new ACPI table will take a long time, this provides a boot method even > > to ACPI-based platforms, if only temporarily for testing and > > development. > > OK should I park this in next now? Seems appropriate ... Yes that sounds like a good idea. It could uncover new bugs since there is more automated testing happening for x86. Thanks, Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org