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[PATCH v2 13/13] docs/system: add a basic enumeration of vhost-user devi


From: Alex Bennée
Subject: [PATCH v2 13/13] docs/system: add a basic enumeration of vhost-user devices
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:21:40 +0100

Make it clear the vhost-user-device is intended for expert use only.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

---
v2
  - make clear vhost-user-device for expert use
---
 docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst |  2 ++
 docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst     | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst 
b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst
index a145d4105c..ead1405326 100644
--- a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst
+++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _vhost_user_rng:
+
 QEMU vhost-user-rng - RNG emulation
 ===================================
 
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst 
b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
index 86128114fa..7038cece3e 100644
--- a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,47 @@ to the guest. The code is mostly boilerplate although each 
device has
 a ``chardev`` option which specifies the ID of the ``--chardev``
 device that connects via a socket to the vhost-user *daemon*.
 
+Each device will have an virtio-mmio and virtio-pci variant. See your
+platform details for what sort of virtio bus to use.
+
+.. list-table:: vhost-user devices
+  :widths: 20 20 60
+  :header-rows: 1
+
+  * - Device
+    - Type
+    - Notes
+  * - vhost-user-device
+    - Generic Development Device
+    - You must manually specify ``virtio-id`` and the correct ``num_vqs``. 
Intended for expert use.
+  * - vhost-user-blk
+    - Block storage
+    -
+  * - vhost-user-fs
+    - File based storage driver
+    - See https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd
+  * - vhost-user-scsi
+    - SCSI based storage
+    - See contrib/vhost-user/scsi
+  * - vhost-user-gpio
+    - Proxy gpio pins to host
+    - See https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device
+  * - vhost-user-i2c
+    - Proxy i2c devices to host
+    - See https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device
+  * - vhost-user-input
+    - Generic input driver
+    - See contrib/vhost-user-input
+  * - vhost-user-rng
+    - Entropy driver
+    - :ref:`vhost_user_rng`
+  * - vhost-user-gpu
+    - GPU driver
+    -
+  * - vhost-user-vsock
+    - Socket based communication
+    - See https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device
+
 vhost-user daemon
 =================
 
-- 
2.39.2




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