Discussion of the implementations of VIRTIO specification
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From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, virtio@lists.oasis-open.org,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] Re: [virtio] [PATCH] virtio: clarify feature negotiation
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:27:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfET8pNaYoWZ6eFt@myrica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220124132837-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 04:42:35PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> So from that point of view, we are actually relaxing the requirements,
> and yes we'll need to carefully go over each instance of
> "offered".
> I thought I did, but now I did a quick grep again and I found instances
> in virtio-iommu.tex and virtio-gpio.tex
> Both of these are new, so I think we can just fix them to "negotiated".
> 
> Jean-Philippe, Viresh, what do you think? Would it be a problem to
> replace offered with negotiated, and restrict iommu and gpio drivers to
> access config space after FEATURES_OK?

No problem for iommu. The config space fields domain_range and input_range
are not useful to the driver before DRIVER_OK. Reading field bypass
earlier could be useful for debugging, but in that case going a few more
steps into device initialization wouldn't hurt.

Thanks,
Jean


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-26  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-14 22:50 [virtio-dev] [PATCH] virtio: clarify feature negotiation Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-17 15:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2022-01-17 22:26   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-19 12:23     ` Halil Pasic
2022-01-19 16:20       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-19 17:50         ` [virtio] " Cornelia Huck
2022-01-19 23:48           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-20 12:39             ` [virtio-comment] " Cornelia Huck
2022-01-20 15:07               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-20 15:24             ` Halil Pasic
2022-01-19 12:23 ` [virtio-comment] Re: [virtio] " Halil Pasic
2022-01-19 16:34   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-20 13:05     ` [virtio-dev] " Cornelia Huck
2022-01-20 16:52       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-21  2:38       ` Halil Pasic
2022-01-21 16:05         ` [virtio-dev] " Cornelia Huck
2022-01-24 16:40           ` Halil Pasic
2022-01-24 21:42             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-25 14:57               ` [virtio] " Cornelia Huck
2022-01-25 18:05                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-26  9:27               ` Jean-Philippe Brucker [this message]
2022-04-07 14:28                 ` Cornelia Huck
2022-04-07 14:58                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-01-26 15:10               ` Halil Pasic
2022-01-25 15:22             ` [virtio-dev] " Cornelia Huck
2022-01-26 14:14               ` Halil Pasic
2022-01-21  3:17     ` Halil Pasic

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