On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 at 10:38, <t.ampelikiotis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Timos Ampelikiotis <t.ampelikiotis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > We would like to share with you an RFC for the Virtio-loopback > technology which we have been working on at Virtual Open Systems in > the context of the Automotive Grade Linux community (Software defined > Vehicles expert group) > > We previously presented this activity (see [1]) and now we come back > to you with latest development and updates. > > We believe that the technology is more mature today and we would like > to assess the community interest in the technology itself and in > merging the code. > > Below we provide a brief description of the technology, recent > updates and a short comparison with vDUSE that might be seen as a > similar technology. > > 1. Overview: > ------- > > Virtio-loopback is a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) designed for > non-virtualized environments based on virtio. The main objective is > to enable applications communication with vhost-user devices in a > non-virtualized environment. I don't see anything related to vhost-user in the patch. It seems to be a virtio-mmio interface between the kernel driver and userspace? Stefan
