Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-19 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thursday 19 February 2009 03:08:35 Ira Snyder wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:13:03PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: don't restrict yourself to 32 feature bits (only PCI does this, and they're going to have to hack when we reach feature 32). There isn't any problem adding more feature

Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-19 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:10:08PM +0800, Zang Roy-R61911 wrote: -Original Message- From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale@ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale@ozlabs .org] On Behalf Of Ira Snyder Sent: Wednesday, February 18,

Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-19 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:48:04PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2009 03:08:35 Ira Snyder wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:13:03PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: don't restrict yourself to 32 feature bits (only PCI does this, and they're going to have to hack when

Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-19 Thread Kumar Gala
Snyder Cc: Arnd Bergmann; Jan-Bernd Themann; net...@vger.kernel.org; Rusty Russell; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ira Snyder wrote: Documentation/virtio-over-PCI.txt | 61 ++ arch

Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-19 Thread Ira Snyder
Of Kumar Gala Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 0:47 AM To: Ira Snyder Cc: Arnd Bergmann; Jan-Bernd Themann; net...@vger.kernel.org; Rusty Russell; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ira

RE: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-19 Thread Zang Roy-R61911
v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:10:08PM +0800, Zang Roy-R61911 wrote: -Original Message- From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale@ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale@ozlabs .org

RE: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-19 Thread Zang Roy-R61911
Subject: Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Zang Roy-R61911 wrote: -Original Message- From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale@ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale@ozlabs .org] On Behalf

Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-18 Thread Ira Snyder
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:13:03PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2009 08:54:25 Ira Snyder wrote: This adds support to Linux for using virtio between two computers linked by a PCI interface. This allows the use of virtio_net to create a familiar, fast interface for

Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-18 Thread Kumar Gala
On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ira Snyder wrote: Documentation/virtio-over-PCI.txt | 61 ++ arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc834x_mds.dts |7 + we'll have to review the .dts and expect a documentation update for the node. But that's pretty minor at this point. drivers/virtio/Kconfig

RE: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-18 Thread Zang Roy-R61911
-Original Message- From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale@ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale@ozlabs .org] On Behalf Of Ira Snyder Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:24 AM To: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org Cc:

RE: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-18 Thread Zang Roy-R61911
...@vger.kernel.org; Rusty Russell; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ira Snyder wrote: Documentation/virtio-over-PCI.txt | 61 ++ arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc834x_mds.dts |7

Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

2009-02-17 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 08:54:25 Ira Snyder wrote: This adds support to Linux for using virtio between two computers linked by a PCI interface. This allows the use of virtio_net to create a familiar, fast interface for communication. It should be possible to use other virtio devices in