Rusty Russell wrote:
>>
>> A side effect of this is that Xen drivers can no longer use virtio.
>>
>
> I'm not so sure.
>
> We were always assuming that Xen could do state management in its virtio
> layer. If this is not true, it implies we need hooks in the virtio
> drivers, and I don't think
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:55 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Rusty Russell wrote:
> >> Previous versions of virtio didn't commonalize probing. For every
> >> driver, every virtio implementation (KVM, lguest, etc) needed an
> >> in-kernel stub to join their bus to the probe code.
>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Previous versions of virtio didn't commonalize probing. For every
>> driver, every virtio implementation (KVM, lguest, etc) needed an
>> in-kernel stub to join their bus to the probe code.
>>
>> To solve this, we introduce a "virtio_config" mechanism, wh
Rusty Russell wrote:
> Previous versions of virtio didn't commonalize probing. For every
> driver, every virtio implementation (KVM, lguest, etc) needed an
> in-kernel stub to join their bus to the probe code.
>
> To solve this, we introduce a "virtio_config" mechanism, which is
> simply a set of
