RE: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver
From: Zang Roy-R61911 <hidden>
Date: 2009-02-20 03:45:19
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-----Original Message----- From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak@kernel.crashing.org] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 0:52 AM To: Zang Roy-R61911 Cc: Ira Snyder; Arnd Bergmann; Jan-Bernd Themann; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Rusty Russell; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Zang Roy-R61911 wrote:quoted
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-----Original Message----- From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale.com@ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+tie-fei.zang=freescale.com@ozlabs .org] On Behalf Of Kumar Gala Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 0:47 AM To: Ira Snyder Cc: Arnd Bergmann; Jan-Bernd Themann; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Rusty Russell; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.orgquoted
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ira Snyder wrote:quoted
Documentation/virtio-over-PCI.txt | 61 ++ arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc834x_mds.dts | 7 +we'll have to review the .dts and expect a documentation update for the node. But that's pretty minor at this point.quoted
drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 22 + drivers/virtio/Makefile | 2 + drivers/virtio/vop.h | 119 ++ drivers/virtio/vop_fsl.c | 1911++++++++++++++++++++++++quoted
+++++++++make this vop_fsl_mpc83xx.c or something along those lines.why?so we can deal with 85xx as well.
After some modificaiton, the driver should be used on 85xx. For 85xx, most of the cases are for pci express.
We just need to isolate the 83xx specific bits (message usage)
Yes. Roy