Re: [RFC] kvm tools: Add support for virtio-mmio

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On 11/15/2011 07:56 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > 
> > This isn't a PCI device, so does it make sense to use a PCI vendor
> > ID here? The kernel doesn't check the vendor ID at the moment,
> > but presumably the idea of the field is to allow the kernel to
> > work around implementation bugs/blacklist/whatever if necessary.
> > If that's the theory then it would make more sense for QEMU and
> > kvm-tool to use IDs that say "this is the QEMU implementation"
> > and "this is the kvm-tool implementation".
> > 
> > (I picked 0x554D4551 for QEMU...)
> > 
> > -- PMM
>
> I just sheepishly filled in the only vendor ID I knew of in the virtio
> spec :)
>  
> Hmm... If thats the plan, it should probably be a virtio thing (not
> virtio-mmio specific).
>
> Either way, it could also use some clarification in the spec.

The spec only covers virtio-pci; this virtio-mmio is completely
unspec'ed.  IMO it's a timebomb waiting to explode.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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