On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:59:33 +0930 Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've had several requests for a more formal approach to the > virtio draft spec, and (after some soul-searching) I'd like to try that. > > The proposal is to use OASIS as the standards body, as it's > fairly light-weight as these things go. For me this means paperwork and > setting up a Working Group and getting the right people involved as > Voting members starting with the current contributors; for most of you > it just means a new mailing list, though I'll be cross-posting any > drafts and major changes here anyway. > > I believe that a documented standard (aka virtio 1.0) will > increase visibility and adoption in areas outside our normal linux/kvm > universe. There's been some of that already, but this is the clearest > path to accelerate it. Not the easiest path, but I believe that a solid > I/O standard is a Good Thing for everyone. > > Yet I also want to decouple new and experimental development > from the standards effort; running code comes first. New feature bits > and new device numbers should be reservable without requiring a full > spec change. > > So the essence of my proposal is: > 1) I start a Working Group within OASIS where we can aim for virtio spec > 1.0. > > 2) The current spec is textually reordered so the core is clearly > bus-independent, with PCI, mmio, etc appendices. > > 3) Various clarifications, formalizations and cleanups to the spec text, > and possibly elimination of old deprecated features. > > 4) The only significant change to the spec is that we use PCI > capabilities, so we can have infinite feature bits. > (see > http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2011-December/019198.html) "Infinite" only applies to virtio-pci, no? > > 5) Changes to the ring layout and other such things are deferred to a > future virtio version; whether this is done within OASIS or > externally depends on how well this works for the 1.0 release. > > Thoughts? > Rusty. > Sounds like a good idea. I'll be happy to review the spec with an eye to virtio-ccw. Cornelia _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
