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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Implement a virtio GPU transport
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:48:00 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010292148.01167.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC8226F.5080807@collabora.co.uk>

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:30:31 pm Ian Molton wrote:
> On 19/10/10 11:39, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 10/19/2010 12:31 PM, Ian Molton wrote:
> 
> >>> 2. should start with a patch to the virtio-pci spec to document what
> >>> you're doing
> >>
> >> Where can I find that spec?
> >
> > http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/
> 
> Ok, but I'm not patching that until theres been some review.

Fair enough; it's a bit of a PITA to patch, so it makes sense to get the
details nailed down first.

> There are links to the associated qemu and guest OS changes in my 
> original email.
> 
> >> It doesnt, at present... It could be changed fairly easily ithout
> >> breaking anything if that happens though.
> >
> > The hypervisor and the guest can be changed independently. The driver
> > should be coded so that it doesn't depend on hypervisor implementation
> > details.
> 
> Fixed - updated patch tested and attached.

OK. FWIW, I think this is an awesome idea.  I understand others are skeptical,
but this seems simple and if it works and you're happy to maintain it I'm
happy to let you do it :)

Cheers,
Rusty.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Implement a virtio GPU transport
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:48:00 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010292148.01167.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC8226F.5080807@collabora.co.uk>

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:30:31 pm Ian Molton wrote:
> On 19/10/10 11:39, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 10/19/2010 12:31 PM, Ian Molton wrote:
> 
> >>> 2. should start with a patch to the virtio-pci spec to document what
> >>> you're doing
> >>
> >> Where can I find that spec?
> >
> > http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/
> 
> Ok, but I'm not patching that until theres been some review.

Fair enough; it's a bit of a PITA to patch, so it makes sense to get the
details nailed down first.

> There are links to the associated qemu and guest OS changes in my 
> original email.
> 
> >> It doesnt, at present... It could be changed fairly easily ithout
> >> breaking anything if that happens though.
> >
> > The hypervisor and the guest can be changed independently. The driver
> > should be coded so that it doesn't depend on hypervisor implementation
> > details.
> 
> Fixed - updated patch tested and attached.

OK. FWIW, I think this is an awesome idea.  I understand others are skeptical,
but this seems simple and if it works and you're happy to maintain it I'm
happy to let you do it :)

Cheers,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-06 15:59 [PATCH] Implement a virtio GPU transport Ian Molton
2010-10-10 15:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-19 10:31   ` Ian Molton
2010-10-19 10:31     ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Molton
2010-10-19 10:39     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-19 10:39       ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-10-27 13:00       ` Ian Molton
2010-10-27 13:00         ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28  9:27         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28  9:27           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28 11:54           ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 11:54             ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 14:24             ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28 14:24               ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28 14:43               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-28 14:43                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-28 19:50                 ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 19:50                   ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 20:14                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-28 20:14                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-28 21:41                     ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 21:41                       ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 19:52               ` Ian Molton
2010-11-01 10:42                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-01 13:21                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-01 13:21                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-01 15:49                     ` Ian Molton
2010-11-01 15:49                       ` Ian Molton
2010-11-01 15:57                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-01 15:57                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-03 17:49                         ` Ian Molton
2010-11-03 17:49                           ` Ian Molton
2010-11-01 15:50                   ` Ian Molton
2010-10-29 11:18         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2010-10-29 11:18           ` Rusty Russell
2010-10-29 11:49           ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-10-29 11:49             ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-10-29 11:49             ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-10-29 13:05           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-29 13:05             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-01 11:53             ` Alon Levy
2010-11-01 11:53               ` Alon Levy
2010-11-01 13:28               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-01 13:28                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-03 18:03                 ` Ian Molton
2010-11-03 18:03                   ` Ian Molton
2010-11-03 18:17                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-03 18:17                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-05 18:05                     ` Ian Molton
2010-11-05 18:05                       ` Ian Molton
2010-11-10 17:22                       ` Ian Molton
2010-11-10 17:22                         ` Ian Molton
2010-11-10 17:47                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-10 17:47                           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-12 12:14                           ` Ian Molton
2010-11-12 12:14                             ` Ian Molton
2010-11-12 13:21                             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-12 13:21                               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-04  9:13                   ` Alon Levy
2010-11-04  9:13                     ` Alon Levy
2010-11-05 17:57                     ` Ian Molton
2010-11-05 17:57                       ` Ian Molton
2010-11-03 17:50           ` Ian Molton
2010-11-03 17:50             ` Ian Molton

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