linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v3] arm: Add platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio device

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Message-ID: <1316422894.3014.1.camel@hornet.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:01:34 +0100
From:	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
	<virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"Michael S.Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3] arm: Add platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio
 device

> > Have you written a specification for this device?
> > 
> > Rusty maintains a formal spec for all virtio devices at:
> > 
> > http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/
> > 
> > The spec should be written before merging the code to make sure that there 
> > aren't future compatibility problems.
> 
> A good idea, but the current spec is for PCI.  I wonder if we should
> move the PCI part out to an appendix and make it more general?
> 
> Meanwhile, perhaps this would be suitable as an appendix.

Yes, that sounds reasonable. I'll work on this during the week, but in
the meantime - does the driver look good enough to ask Peter to invest
his time into QEMU side?

Cheers!

Paweł


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