Signed-off-by: Nikos Dragazis <[email protected]>
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@@ -165,11 +165,12 @@ \section{Notifications}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a
Virtio Device
to driver) plays an important role in this specification. The
modus operandi of the notifications is transport specific.
-There are three types of notifications:
+There are four types of notifications:
\begin{itemize}
\item configuration change notification
\item available buffer notification
-\item used buffer notification.
+\item used buffer notification
+\item device-specific notification.
\end{itemize}
Configuration change notifications and used buffer notifications are sent
@@ -182,6 +183,11 @@ \section{Notifications}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a
Virtio Device
the device. This type of notification indicates that a buffer may have
been made available on the virtqueue designated by the notification.
+Device-specific notifications are sent by the device, the recipient is
+the driver. Their purpose is to allow the device to send notifications
+other than configuration changes and used buffer notifications. These
+notifications are optional and their meaning is device-specific.
+
The semantics, the transport-specific implementations, and other
important aspects of the different notifications are specified in detail
in the following chapters.
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