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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring.
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring. |
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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:42:17 +0200 |
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:59:59PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > It does seem frankly bizarre that adding a new transport requires
> > knowing about all the backends (notice how s390-virtio-bus.c has
> > to register types for each backend). The kernel gets the transport
> > vs backend separation much cleaner and it was much easier to
> > add the virtio support there.
>
> Yes, I agree. However, to some extent it's unavoidable. For example,
> the PCI transport needs to know the class id for each backend.
PCI device ID too (they don't match virtio IDs).
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Peter Maydell, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Peter Maydell, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Peter Maydell, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Peter Maydell, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Paolo Bonzini, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring.,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., KONRAD Frédéric, 2012/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring., Michael S. Tsirkin, 2012/12/18