[RFC v2] arm: Add platform bus driver for virtio device

Pawel Moll pawel.moll at arm.com
Tue Sep 13 04:58:42 EDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 12:27 -0500, Anthony Liguori 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.
>
> Are you planning on sending patches to QEMU for this?  I think it makes 
> sense to start in QEMU with this effort and make a proper spec from 
> which you can write the driver against.

Even better :-) Peter Maydell (Linaro QEMU magician) agreed to do this
himself, once we reach some agreement regarding the interface.

Cheers!

Paweł




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