Re: [PATCHv2 RFC] virtio-spec: flexible configuration layout

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Wed Nov 09 2011 - 15:27:19 EST


On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 21:59 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

[snip]

> +\begin_layout Enumerate
> +Reset the device.
> + This is not required on initial start up.
> +\end_layout
> +
> +\begin_layout Enumerate
> +The ACKNOWLEDGE status bit is set: we have noticed the device.
> +\end_layout
> +
> +\begin_layout Enumerate
> +The DRIVER status bit is set: we know how to drive the device.
> +\end_layout
> +
> +\begin_layout Enumerate
> +
> +\change_inserted 1986246365 1320838089
> +PCI capability list scan, detecting virtio configuration layout using Virtio
> + Structure PCI capabilities.

Does the legacy space always gets mapped from BAR0?

If yes, It'll be a bit harder deprecating it in the future.

If not, this should actually be #1. Previous 3 bullets here were already
setting the status byte in the device config.

[snip]

> +<cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none">
> +\begin_inset Text
> +
> +\begin_layout Plain Layout
> +
> +\change_inserted 1986246365 1320786225
> +28 bytes

This is the new virtio header min size, shouldn't it be 32? (20 + 4
(msi-x) + 4 (guest feature) + 4 (device features)).

--

Sasha.

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