On Tue, Aug 09 2022, Ricardo Cañuelo <ricardo.canuelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How about this as an introduction?
>
> Virtio is an open standard that defines a protocol to communicate
> drivers and devices of different types, see Chapter 5 ("Device
"...that defines a protocol for communication between drivers and
devices of different device types, see..."
> Types") of the virtio spec `[1]`_. Originally developed as a
> standard for paravirtualized devices implemented by a hypervisor, it
> can be used to interface any compliant device (real or emulated)
> with a driver.
>
> For illustrative purposes, this document will focus on the common
> case of a Linux kernel running in a virtual machine and using
> paravirtualized devices provided by the hypervisor, which exposes
> them as virtio devices via standard mechanisms such as PCI.
Sounds good to me.
(...)
> Ok, I'll simplify the intro to this:
>
> This document serves as a basic guideline for driver programmers
> that need to hack a new virtio driver or understand the essentials
> of the existing ones. See :ref:`Virtio on Linux <virtio>` for a
> general overview of virtio.
Ok.
