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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <matiasevara@gmail.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Backend libraries for VirtIO device emulation
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 20:34:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2sd43zv.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200306191427.GA132@matiasv.localdomain>


Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <matiasevara@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Alex,
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 06:33:57PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> So the context of my question is what sort of common software layer is
>> required to implement a virtio backend entirely in userspace?
<snip>
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
> I am currently investigating the use of metamodeling to capture virtio
> concepts. The work is still a draft but you can give a look at
> https://github.com/MatiasVara/virtioml. One of the ideas is to base on a
> metamodel to generate the code for different targets, e.g., rust,
> c, etc. For the moment, I just played by generating the c header. This
> could be extended to other languages.

Thanks for the pointer, I shall have a look.

-- 
Alex Bennée

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-06 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-06 18:33 [virtio-dev] Backend libraries for VirtIO device emulation Alex Bennée
2020-03-06 19:14 ` Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
2020-03-06 20:34   ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2020-03-06 19:40 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-03-06 20:24   ` Alex Bennée
2020-03-09  8:11     ` Jan Kiszka
2020-03-09 10:44     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-03-09 12:12       ` Alex Bennée
2020-03-09 15:08         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-03-09 15:46 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-09 16:43   ` Alex Bennée
2020-03-11 17:24     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-03-11 18:18       ` Halil Pasic
2020-03-09 17:27   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2020-03-09 17:42     ` Alex Bennée
2020-03-11 17:28       ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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