On 06/09/2011 01:15 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

I can see some good use cases for having a socket to do IPC between OS
images that have a shared memory interconnect. What I see as most
problematic is to have it defined in a way that is tightly connected
to specific hardware from one vendor. If the protocol was defined
in a way that is useful for communication between virtual machines
(e.g. on top of virtio) and tranparent PCI bridges, it would probably
be much more acceptable.

	Arnd

Yeah, we're trying to figure out the best way to do socket-based
communication between various images within a SoC.  I was thinking that
some kind of registration scheme would be necessary for the new AF to
support different SoCs and communication mechanisms.  We'll take a look
at ways to have a generic implementation.  Thanks.

- Bryan

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