From: Ira Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Jan-Bernd Themann <THEMANN@de.ibm.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:53:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090414215342.GB9877@ovro.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40904141328oa57fb1bsffd0549a52eca90@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:28:26PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Ira Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> wrote:
> > This adds support to Linux for using virtio between two computers linked by
> > a PCI interface. This allows the use of virtio_net to create a familiar,
> > fast interface for communication. It should be possible to use other virtio
> > devices in the future, but this has not been tested.
>
> Hey Ira,
>
> I like this a lot. I need to do much the same thing on one of my
> platforms, so I'm going to use your patch as my starting point. Have
> you made many changes since you posted this version of your patch?
> I'd like to collaborate on the development and help to get it
> mainlined.
>
This would be great. I'd really appreciate the help. I haven't had time
to make any changes since I last posted the patch. I started work on
converting all of the usage of struct vop_loc_* to just use the on-wire
structures, but I didn't get very far before other work got in the way.
> In my case I've got an MPC5200 as the 'host' and a Xilinx Virtex
> (ppc440) as the 'client'. I intend set aside a region of the Xilinx
> Virtex's memory space for the shared queues. I'm starting work on it
> now, and I'll provide you with feedback and/or patches as I make
> progress.
>
I'm looking forward to seeing your implementation. If you have any
questions, I'd be happy to attempt to answer them :)
Ira
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-24 0:00 [RFC v2] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver Ira Snyder
2009-02-26 16:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-26 16:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-26 20:25 ` Ira Snyder
2009-02-26 20:01 ` Ira Snyder
2009-02-26 20:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-26 21:49 ` Ira Snyder
2009-02-26 22:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-26 23:17 ` Ira Snyder
2009-02-26 23:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-04-21 6:09 ` Grant Likely
2009-04-14 20:28 ` Grant Likely
2009-04-14 21:23 ` David Hawkins
2009-04-14 21:45 ` Grant Likely
2009-04-14 21:52 ` David Hawkins
2009-04-14 22:16 ` Grant Likely
2009-04-14 22:27 ` David Hawkins
2009-04-14 21:53 ` Ira Snyder [this message]
2009-06-11 14:22 ` Grant Likely
2009-06-11 15:10 ` Ira Snyder
2011-05-06 12:00 Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579
2011-05-06 16:06 ` Ira W. Snyder
2011-05-07 5:59 ` Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579
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