From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-7811-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 34F2D985DC3 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 06:22:57 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20200925062230-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20200821131540.2801801-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org> <20200925084806.GB490533@myrica> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200925084806.GB490533@myrica> 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: Jean-Philippe Brucker Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, bhelgaas@google.com, jasowang@redhat.com, kevin.tian@intel.com, sebastien.boeuf@intel.com, eric.auger@redhat.com, lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com List-ID: On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:48:06AM +0200, Jean-Philippe Brucker 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. > > > > v3: > > * Add patch 1 that moves virtio-iommu to a subfolder. > > * Split the rest: > > * Patch 2 adds topology-helper.c, which will be shared with the ACPI > > support. > > * Patch 4 adds definitions. > > * Patch 5 adds parser in topology.c. > > * Address other comments. > > > > Linux and QEMU patches available at: > > https://jpbrucker.net/git/linux virtio-iommu/devel > > https://jpbrucker.net/git/qemu virtio-iommu/devel > > I'm parking this work again, until we make progress on the ACPI table, or > until a platform without ACPI and DT needs it. Until then, I've pushed v4 > to my virtio-iommu/topo branch and will keep it rebased on master. > > Thanks, > Jean I think you guys need to work on virtio spec too, not too much left to do there ... -- MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org