linux-kernel - Re: virtio scsi host draft specification, v3

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Message-ID: <BANLkTimqrZYnnVq5KTh3s68_o3Lfr9oWeA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:14:02 +0100
From:	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <chellwig@...hat.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: virtio scsi host draft specification, v3

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:59:27 +0200, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On 06/09/2011 01:28 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> >> >  after some preliminary discussion on the QEMU mailing list, I present a
>> >> >  draft specification for a virtio-based SCSI host (controller, HBA, you
>> >> >  name it).
>> >
>> > OK, I'm impressed.  This is very well written and it doesn't make any of
>> > the obvious mistakes wrt. virtio.
>>
>> Thanks very much, and thanks to those who corrected my early mistakes.
>>
>> > I assume you have an implementation, as well?
>>
>> Unfortunately not; "we're working on it", which means I should start in
>> July when I come back from vacation.
>>
>> Do you prefer to wait for one before I make a patch to the LyX source?
>> In the meanwhile, can you reserve a subsystem ID for me?
>>
>> Paolo
>
> Sure, you can have the next subsystem ID.
>
> It's a pain to patch once it's in LyX, so let's get the implementation
> base on what you posted here an see how much it changes first...

Paolo, I'll switch the Linux guest LLD and QEMU virtio-scsi skeleton
that I have to comply with the spec.  Does this sound good or did you
want to write these from scratch?

Stefan
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