[virtio-dev] RE: [PATCH v2 0/2] transport-pci: Introduce legacy registers access using AQ

Parav Pandit
2023-05-11T20:47:09Z

> From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 9:39 AM
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:28:40PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > This is not the objective to transport all PCI virtio fields over AQ.
> > Transport VQ commands proposal commands and commands in this proposal
> are just fine the way there without quoting it as "transport".
>
> I mean, it's a transport in a sense of where it will reside in e.g.
> linux virtio stack - below virtio core.
> We don't save much code there by reusing the same register layout of legacy
> pci.
> But let's at least make this feature complete, and then we'll see whether it is
> cleaner to reuse legacy layout or build a new one.

I don't follow your comment about "this feature complete".
When you say _this_, it means the feature proposed in this patch of supporting legacy over PCI VFs?

If so, anything missing in this proposal?