Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V6 6/6] docs: sample driver to demonstrate how to implement virtio-mdev framework | | From | Jason Wang <> | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:46:02 +0800 |
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On 2019/10/31 上午5:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 02:44:44PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> This sample driver creates mdev device that simulate virtio net device >> over virtio mdev transport. The device is implemented through vringh >> and workqueue. A device specific dma ops is to make sure HVA is used >> directly as the IOVA. This should be sufficient for kernel virtio >> driver to work. >> >> Only 'virtio' type is supported right now. I plan to add 'vhost' type >> on top which requires some virtual IOMMU implemented in this sample >> driver. > Can we please submit a real driver for it? A more or less useless > sample driver doesn't really qualify for our normal kernel requirements > that infrastructure should have a real user.
Intel posted a real driver here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/15/1226.
I plan to post another driver that wire virito-pci back to mdev bus on top of this series as well.
Thanks
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