On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 02:17:15PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:05:41 +0900, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> virtio: Virtio platform driver > >> > >> [PATCH 01/02] virtio: Break out lguest virtio code to virtio_lguest.c > >> [PATCH 02/02] virtio: Add virtio platform driver > > > > I have no problem with these patches, but it's just churn until we see > > your actual drivers. > > Well, actually this platform driver is used together with already > existing drivers, so there are no new virtio drivers to wait for. > > The drivers that have been tested are so far: > > CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y > > At this point there are four different pieces of code working together > > 1) Virtio platform driver patches (for guest) > 2) SH4AL-DSP guest kernel patch > 3) ARM UIO driver patches (for host) > 4) User space backing code for ARM based on lguest.c > > These patches in this mail thread are 1), and I decided to brush up > that portion and submit upstream because it's the part that is easiest > to break out. I intend to post the rest bit by bit over time, but if > someone is interested then I can post everything at once too. > I'm very interested in the full series of patches. I want to do something similar to talk between two Linux kernels (x86 and PowerPC) connected by a PCI bus. Thanks, Ira > > The S/390 devs might be interested, as their bus is very similar too... > > The lguest device code is very similar as well, perhaps it's worth > refactoring that a bit to build on top of the platform driver. Not > sure if you see that as a move in the right direction though. > > Thanks for your feedback! > > / magnus > _______________________________________________ > Virtualization mailing list > Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
