linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] gpio: Add virtio-gpio driver

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Message-ID: <20210614091218.mj5hdx4xhy4vho5x@vireshk-i7>
Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:42:18 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@...ux.net>,
        Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Bill Mills <bill.mills@...aro.org>,
        Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>,
        stratos-dev@...lists.linaro.org,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        "Stefano Garzarella --cc virtualization @ lists . linux-foundation . org" 
        <sgarzare@...hat.com>, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Alistair Strachan <astrachan@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] gpio: Add virtio-gpio driver

On 14-06-21, 10:07, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 11.06.21 10:01, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> 
> > No, QEMU passes the raw messages to the backend daemon running in host
> > userspace (which shares a socket with qemu). The backend understands
> > the virtio/vhost protocols and so won't be required to change at all
> > if we move from Qemu to something else. And that's what we (Linaro)
> > are looking to do here with Project Stratos.

This is one of the ways of using it, via a backend running in host
userspace, maybe there are other ways of making this work which I may
not have explored, like handling this within qemu.

> Note that this is completely different from my approach that I've posted
> in autumn last year. Viresh's protocol hasn't much in common with mine.

The protocol hasn't changed in a sense on how it can be used. Yes few
things have moved around, new operations were introduced, but nothing
that will make a change at this level. We are trying to use the
protocol in one of the possible ways and yours can be different.

-- 
viresh