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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio refactoring.
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To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, aliguori@us.ibm.com, Evgeny Voevodin <e.voevodin@samsung.com>, Mark Burton <mark.burton@greensocs.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, =?UTF-8?B?S09OUkFEIEZyw6lkw6lyaWM=?= <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>

Am 13.11.2012 16:32, schrieb Cornelia Huck:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:27:57 +0100
> KONRAD Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric <fred.konrad@greensocs.com> wrote:
>>      * Introduce a new VirtioBus ( same way as scsi-bus.c ), with=20
>> VirtIODevice
>>        interface :
>>           -> callback to completely abstract the VirtioDevice from=20
>> VirtioPCI.
>>           -> for the queue, load/save the queue/config, features, ...,=
=20
>> other ?
>>      * Add a VirtioBus to the VirtioPCIProxy. ( virtio-pci.c ) :
>>           -> moving all to the newer callback.
>>      * For each of the virtio-device : ( virtio-x.c )
>>           -> making a separate class for virtio-x which is a VirtioDev=
ice.
>>           -> making a virtio-x-pci which has a virtio-x.
>>      * Create virtio-mmio ( virtio-mmio.c ).
>>
>> Is it the right approach ? Do I miss something ?
>=20
> What of the alias handling? Can this be killed once everything has been
> converted?

AFAIU yes, but we may need to add new aliases for the long versions
(virtio-blk-pci) instead. ;)

Andreas

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