From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-7810-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 A9A77985DC3 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:22:27 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 06:22:20 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20200925062122-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20200821131540.2801801-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org> <20200924045958-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20200924092129.GH27174@8bytes.org> <20200924053159-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20200924100255.GM27174@8bytes.org> <20200924083918-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20200924125046.GR27174@8bytes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200924125046.GR27174@8bytes.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: Joerg Roedel Cc: Auger Eric , Jean-Philippe Brucker , 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 List-ID: 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org