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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host suppor
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support |
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Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:38:59 +0200 |
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 05:28:42PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:18:25 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>
> > > So we should have a per-device callback into the transport layer, say
> > > check_legacy()?
> >
> > I would just have 2 masks: legacy_features and features.
>
> But these belong to the device type and the transport just needs to
> trigger usage of the right one, right?
>
> >
> > > For ccw, this would check for the negotiated revision; for mmio, it
> > > could check a device property configured with the device; and for pci,
> > > whatever the mechanism is there :)
> > >
> > > A transport not implementing this callback is simply considered
> > > legacy-only.
> >
> > I dislike callbacks. Let's just give all info to core,
> > and have it DTRT.
> >
> Have a is_legacy flag in the vdev that is initialized to 1, and
> transports can unset it when the revision is negotiated or during init?
Also, let's focus on one device, e.g. -net for now.
Then probably virtio scsi.
That's because blk needs to be reworked to support ANY_LAYOUT.
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MST
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 16/16] virtio-net: enable virtio 1.0, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 16/16] virtio-net: enable virtio 1.0, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 15/16] virtio-net: support longer header, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/11/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v4 00/16] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support, Cornelia Huck, 2014/11/28