[PATCH v3] virtio: Add platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio device
Pawel Moll
pawel.moll at arm.com
Thu Oct 13 12:49:54 EDT 2011
Greetings,
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 17:50 +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
> This patch, based on virtio PCI driver, adds support for memory
> mapped (platform) virtio device. This should allow environments
> like qemu to use virtio-based block & network devices even on
> platforms without PCI support.
>
> One can define and register a platform device which resources
> will describe memory mapped control registers and "mailbox"
> interrupt. Such device can be also instantiated using the Device
> Tree node with compatible property equal "virtio,mmio".
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori at us.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael S.Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com>
Does the silence mean that everyone is happy about the code and the
spec? ;-) Does it look good enough for the imminent 3.2 merge window?
Cheers!
Pawel
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