On (Mon) 06 Oct 2014 [18:10:40], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On restore, virtio pci does the following:
> + set features
> + init vqs etc - device can be used at this point!
> + set ACKNOWLEDGE,DRIVER and DRIVER_OK status bits
>
> This is in violation of the virtio spec, which
> requires the following order:
> - ACKNOWLEDGE
> - DRIVER
> - init vqs
> - DRIVER_OK
>
> This behaviour will break with hypervisors that assume spec compliant
> behaviour. It seems like a good idea to have this patch applied to
> stable branches to reduce the support butden for the hypervisors.
>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: Amit Shah <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
I didn't see my previous questions answered from the initial posting
-- can you please respond to them?
Amit
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