Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] gpio: Add virtio-gpio driver
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date: 2021-06-14 09:24:30
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On 14-06-21, 10:03, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
for qemu side you might be interested in my patch queue from last year (including the virtio-gpio implementation) - it also introduces an gpio backend subsys that allows attaching simulation gpio's to various backends. so far just implemented a dummy backend (that can be manipulated by qemu console) and using it just in the virtio-gpio device emulation. https://github.com/oss-qm/qemu/tree/wip/gpio-v2
Interesting, so this is a qemu-specific backend you have here. The way we are looking to write the backend (in Project Stratos at Linaro) is to make it hypervisor agnostic. So any hypervisor that understands the vhost protocol can use our backend without changing a single line of code. The backend will not be part of any hypervisor's/VMM's source code. FWIW, this doesn't add anything special to the virtio protocol (like GPIO). Here is a C based backend we have for I2C: https://yhbt.net/lore/all/cover.1617278395.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org/T/#m3b5044bad9769b170f505e63bd081eb27cef8db2 I started with keeping code in QEMU itself but now replaced it with one in RUST. https://github.com/vireshk/vhost-device/tree/master/src/i2c -- viresh