linux-kernel - Re: Proposal for virtio standardization.

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Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:16:51 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>, Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>,
	Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Avishay Traeger <AVISHAY@...ibm.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for virtio standardization.

Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> writes:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:59:33 +0930
> Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> 3) Various clarifications, formalizations and cleanups to the spec text,
>>    and possibly elimination of old deprecated features.
>> 
>> 4) The only significant change to the spec is that we use PCI
>>    capabilities, so we can have infinite feature bits.
>>    (see
>> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2011-December/019198.html)
>
> "Infinite" only applies to virtio-pci, no?

Yes, you already have "infinite" feature bits for ccw, as does every bus
we did since PCI.

> Sounds like a good idea. I'll be happy to review the spec with an eye
> to virtio-ccw.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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