Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:10:13 -0700 | From | Ira Snyder <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver |
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:22:54AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Ira Snyder<iws@ovro.caltech.edu> wrote: > > 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 :) > > Hey Ira, > > I've been slowly hacking on your virtio-over-pci stuff. I've got an > initial series of cleanup patches which address some of the comments > from this thread. Before I send them to you, have you made any > changes on your end? They likely won't apply without changes to the > core code, so I'd like to sync up with you first. >
I haven't made any changes to the code since you've last seen it. I've been busy with other stuff for quite a while now. I can't wait to see what you've done :)
At least for the use of the 83xx DMA controller, the DMA_SLAVE mode patch I posted up about a week ago (to the ppcdev list) could make the DMA setup much simpler. It hasn't been accepted to mainline yet.
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