Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: add block topology support | Date | Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:52:10 +0930 |
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:19:05 +0200, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:22:42PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > I guess you could just remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECTOR_MAX from the spec. > > > Linux did not implement it, and virtualbox does not have virtio block > > > support at all. Are there any other known users, who might have > > > implemented the VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECTOR_MAX feature? > > > > Did qemu implement it? If not, we'll simply kill it, and pretend it > > never happened... > > It was never added to either qemu or the kernel. It would really help > if we had a copy of the spec in a readable format (that is plain text) > in major implementations of virtio like qemu and the kernel.
That's a really good idea. I've prepared a patch which puts the latest version in the kernel source (Documentation/virtio/virtio-spec.txt).
Thanks! Rusty.
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