Re: [RFC v2 17/37] lkl tools: host lib: virtio devices

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On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 6:03 AM Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Octavian Purdila <tavi.purdila@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add helpers for implementing host virtio devices. It uses the memory
> mapped I/O helpers to interact with the Linux MMIO virtio transport
> driver and offers support to setup and add a new virtio device,
> dispatch requests from the incoming queues as well as support for
> completing requests.
>
> All added virtio devices are stored in lkl_virtio_devs as strings, per
> the Linux MMIO virtio transport driver command line specification.

Did you checkout arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c?
Why is this driver needed?

Virtio support is rather new in UML, we definitely need a common
code base for LKL and UML regarding to virtio.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard



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