Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2] virtio-crypto specification

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:26:36AM +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >                  Virtio-crypto device Spec
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 1 Crypto Device
> > > > > > > The virtio crypto device is a virtual crypto device (ie. hardware 
> > > > > > > crypto
> > > > > > accelerator card). The encryption and decryption requests of are 
> > > > > > placed
> > in
> > > > the
> > > > > > data queue, and handled by the real hardware crypto accelerators 
> > > > > > finally.
> > A
> > > > > > second queue is the control queue, which is used to create or 
> > > > > > destroy
> > > > session
> > > > > > for symmetric algorithms, and to control some advanced features.
> > > > > > > 1.1       Device ID
> > > > > > > 65535 (experimental)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think you should just go ahead and reserve a device ID for this.
> > > > > >
> > > > > OK, I want to reserve 20 as Crypto device's ID as 19 is reserved for 
> > > > > Socket
> > > > device.
> > > >
> > > > Just go ahead and send a patch against the virtio spec that reserves it.
> > >
> > > Sorry, I don't find the git repository of virtio spec, except a svn 
> > > repository
> > which
> > > seems that it's not the latest version. :(
> > >
> > > https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/virtio/
> > >
> > > Where can I get the git repo address? Thanks.
> > 
> > No git tree, sadly; only the svn repository. The current spec is on the
> > v1.0 branch.
> 
> OK, thanks. Maybe I can use git-svn tool to make patch?
> 
> Regards,
> -Gonglei

Yes - that's how everyone works.
initial clone (takes a very long time):
        git svn clone -s https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/virtio
pull
        git svn rebase
push
        git svn dcommit



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