Dor Laor wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> This patch series attempts to come closer to unifying kvm and >> lguest's >> usage of virtio. As these two are the first implementations we've seen, >> I hope making them closer will make future ones closer too. >> >> Drivers now unpack their own configuration: their probe() >> methods are >> uniform. The configuration mechanism is extensible and can be backed by >> PCI, a string of bytes, or something else. >> >> I've abstracted out the lguest ring buffer code into a common >> library. >> The format has changed slightly (mainly because I had an epiphany about >> inter-guest I/O). >> >> I also implemented a console (lguest needs one). >> >> Finally, there is a working lguest implementation. >> Unfortunately, >> lguest is being refactored for non-i386 ports, so the virtio patches sit >> at the end of the (quite long) for-2.6.24 patchqueue. Nonetheless, they >> can be found at http://lguest.ozlabs.org/patches (click on bz2 to get >> the series). >> >> Cheers! >> Rusty. >> > Superb job, it saved me the burden of try to merge the in-house > virtio_backend. > > I like the separation of the ring code, the improved descriptors and > the notify too. > Regarding the pci config space, I rather see config_ops type of > operations to let > the 390/xen/other implementations jump on our wagon. > > Maybe change the offset/len type into a handle pointer and function > pointers. > The best would be to let them comment on that. I glimpsed over xen > netfront.c and I think that > the config space can be used without too many hassles > Dor. > Of course I'll rebase what's left of my code over the new patches.
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