linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] drm/virtio: Align host mapping request to maximum platform page size

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Message-ID: <CAMT+MTQrKWzNfsUqiDawCv=s84XOvUGwsrv34aqmZ6rR482OqA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:17:18 +0100
From: Sasha Finkelstein <fnkl.kernel@...il.com>
To: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>, 
	Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@...omium.org>, Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@...il.com>, 
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, 
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	asahi@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/virtio: Align host mapping request to maximum
 platform page size

On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 15:40, Dmitry Osipenko
<dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com> wrote:
> Otherwise, the proper solution would be to pass info about host's page
> size to guest using extended virtio protocol.

It is not fully clear to me, as to what exactly is meant by that.
IIUC, virtio is a spec managed externally, so does that mean
that i should write to the virtio people to add the relevant bits
to the specification?