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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
	Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	bhelgaas@google.com, jasowang@redhat.com, kevin.tian@intel.com,
	sebastien.boeuf@intel.com, lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com
Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Add virtio-iommu built-in topology
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 06:22:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200925062122-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200924125046.GR27174@8bytes.org>

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 02:50:46PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 08:41:21AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > But this has nothing to do with Linux.  There is also no guarantee that
> > the two committees will decide to use exactly the same format. Once one
> > of them sets the format in stone, we can add support for that format to
> > linux. If another one is playing nice and uses the same format, we can
> > use the same parsers. If it doesn't linux will have to follow suit.
> 
> Or Linux decides to support only one of the formats, which would then be
> ACPI.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Joerg

It's really up to hypervisors not guests, linux as a guest can for sure
refuse to work somewhere, but that's normally not very attractive.

-- 
MST


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-21 13:15 [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] Add virtio-iommu built-in topology Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-08-21 13:15 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] iommu/virtio: Move to drivers/iommu/virtio/ Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-04 15:29   ` [virtio-dev] " Auger Eric
2020-08-21 13:15 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] iommu/virtio: Add topology helpers Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-04 16:22   ` [virtio-dev] " Auger Eric
2020-09-24  8:31     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-08-21 13:15 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] PCI: Add DMA configuration for virtual platforms Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-08-21 13:15 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] iommu/virtio: Add topology definitions Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-04 15:30   ` [virtio-dev] " Auger Eric
2020-08-21 13:15 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] iommu/virtio: Support topology description in config space Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-04 16:05   ` [virtio-dev] " Auger Eric
2020-09-24  8:33     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
     [not found]   ` <20200924152203.GA2320481@bjorn-Precision-5520>
2020-09-25  8:12     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-08-21 13:15 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] iommu/virtio: Enable x86 support Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-08-26 13:26 ` [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Add virtio-iommu built-in topology Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-08-27  8:01   ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-04 16:24 ` Auger Eric
2020-09-24  9:00   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found]     ` <20200924092129.GH27174@8bytes.org>
2020-09-24  9:38       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-24  9:54         ` Auger Eric
     [not found]           ` <20201002182348.GO138842@redhat.com>
2020-10-06 15:23             ` Auger Eric
     [not found]               ` <20201103200904.GA1557194@redhat.com>
2020-11-04  9:33                 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
     [not found]         ` <20200924100255.GM27174@8bytes.org>
2020-09-24 10:24           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-09-24 10:29           ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-24 12:41           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found]             ` <20200924125046.GR27174@8bytes.org>
2020-09-25 10:22               ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2020-09-25  8:48 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-25 10:22   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-25 11:26     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-09-25 13:44       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-25 14:14         ` Gerd Hoffmann

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