[RFC v3] arm: Add platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio device

Pawel Moll pawel.moll at arm.com
Mon Sep 19 05:01:34 EDT 2011


> > Have you written a specification for this device?
> > 
> > Rusty maintains a formal spec for all virtio devices at:
> > 
> > http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/
> > 
> > The spec should be written before merging the code to make sure that there 
> > aren't future compatibility problems.
> 
> A good idea, but the current spec is for PCI.  I wonder if we should
> move the PCI part out to an appendix and make it more general?
> 
> Meanwhile, perhaps this would be suitable as an appendix.

Yes, that sounds reasonable. I'll work on this during the week, but in
the meantime - does the driver look good enough to ask Peter to invest
his time into QEMU side?

Cheers!

Paweł





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