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From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/27] virtio: Introduce VirtIO driver support
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 06:43:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPnjgZ2ozqsAVLPUZ-SBLSCWyhowDFAbX8bwNJc3WOe3_DvY5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1537710145-1888-1-git-send-email-bmeng.cn@gmail.com>

Hi Bin,

On 23 September 2018 at 06:41, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> This series brings in VirtIO driver support in U-Boot. The work is based
> on Tuomas's virtio support on QEMU ARM targets.
>
> VirtIO is a virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers
> where just the guest's device driver "knows" it is running in a virtual
> environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor. This enables guests to
> get high performance network and disk operations, and gives most of the
> performance benefits of paravirtualization. In the U-Boot case, the
> guest is U-Boot itself, while the virtual environment are normally QEMU
> targets like ARM, RISC-V and x86.
>
> Both VirtIO MMIO and PCI transport options are supported. Only VirtIO
> network and block device drivers are supported for now.
>
> The following QEMU targets are supported.
>
>   - qemu_arm_defconfig
>   - qemu_arm64_defconfig
>   - qemu-riscv32_defconfig
>   - qemu-riscv64_defconfig
>   - qemu-x86_defconfig
>   - qemu-x86_64_defconfig
>
> A new child_post_probe() uclass driver method is introduced to better
> support virtio device driver. This also changes BLK uclass driver to
> supply a post_probe() method which calls part_init(), so that we can
> avoid duplicating such call in every BLK driver.
>
> Not every checkpatch warning reported was fixed, but I tried to fix as
> many as possible which makes sense.
>
> This series needs to be applied after the risc-v QEMU series is applied.
>
> This series is available at u-boot-x86/virtio-working for testing.
> Note the branch already contains the risc-v QEMU series plus one network
> stack fix to make virtio-net driver happy.
>

Looks like a very nice implementation.

How does this all get tested? Could we have a simple sandbox driver?

Regards,
Simon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-27 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-23 13:41 [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/27] virtio: Introduce VirtIO driver support Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:41 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/27] dm: core: Allow uclass to set up a device's child after it is probed Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:41   ` Simon Glass
2018-10-11  5:14     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 02/27] dm: Add a new uclass driver for VirtIO transport devices Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-10-11  9:08     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-27 22:10   ` Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-11  9:09     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/27] virtio: Add codes for virtual queue/ring management Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-10-11  9:50     ` Bin Meng
2018-10-12  0:00       ` Simon Glass
2018-09-27 22:11   ` Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-02 15:46     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 04/27] virtio: Add virtio over mmio transport driver Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 05/27] virtio: Add net driver support Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-27 22:12   ` Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-02 16:10     ` Bin Meng
2018-10-22 23:09   ` Joe Hershberger
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/27] test: dm: blk: Correct blk_base test case Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 07/27] sandbox: blk: Switch to use platdata_auto_alloc_size for the driver data Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/27] efi_driver: " Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 09/27] blk: Call part_init() in the post_probe() method Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 10/27] blk: Drop blk_prepare_device() Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/27] blk: Make blk_next_free_devnum() public Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 12/27] blk: Introduce IF_TYPE_VIRTIO Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 13/27] virtio: Add block driver support Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-27 22:12     ` Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 14/27] virtio: cmd: Add virtio command for virtio block devices Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 15/27] arm: qemu: Add a Kconfig in the board directory Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 16/27] arm: qemu: Enumerate virtio bus during early boot Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-10-11 13:21     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-27 22:13   ` Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-11 13:28     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 17/27] riscv: " Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 18/27] riscv: qemu: Include some useful commands Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-27 22:14   ` Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-02 16:03     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 19/27] kconfig: Introduce HAVE_ARCH_IOMAP Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 20/27] x86: Implement arch-specific io accessor routines Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-10-11 13:33     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 21/27] virtio: Add virtio over pci transport driver Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-10-11 13:39     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 22/27] x86: qemu: Imply virtio PCI transport and device drivers Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 23/27] dm: pci: Add APIs to find next capability and extended capability Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 24/27] test: dm: pci: Add cases for finding next PCI capability APIs Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 25/27] virtio: pci: Support non-legacy PCI transport device Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:42   ` Simon Glass
2018-10-11 13:41     ` Bin Meng
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 26/27] virtio: net: Support non-legacy device Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:43   ` Simon Glass
2018-10-15 21:59   ` Joe Hershberger
2018-09-23 13:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 27/27] doc: Document virtio support Bin Meng
2018-09-27 13:43   ` Simon Glass
2018-09-27 13:43 ` Simon Glass [this message]
2018-09-27 22:19   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/27] virtio: Introduce VirtIO driver support Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-02 11:21     ` Simon Glass
2018-10-04  7:00       ` Bin Meng
2018-10-09 16:20         ` Simon Glass
2018-10-10 15:35           ` Bin Meng

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