[ipxe-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] Implement virtio 1.0 support

Ladi Prosek lprosek at redhat.com
Wed Mar 16 08:19:55 UTC 2016


On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 03:48:21PM +0100, Ladi Prosek wrote:
>> The goal here is to support booting from modern and transitional
>> virtio-net devices using the new virtio 1.0 protocol. The code
>> strives to comply with the virtio 1.0 spec and is heavily inspired
>> by the Linux kernel implementation.
>>
>> Changes from v1:
>>
>> * removed the packed attribute from virtio structures
>>
>> * notification cap is now always mapped per queue - results in
>>   one more ioremap call but eliminates special case code
>>
>> * only sizeof(struct virtio_net_config) instead of PAGE_SIZE
>>   of the device cap is mapped
>>
>> * the config cap is now looked for and required
>>
>> * vpm_ioread* and vpm_iowrite* support memory, port I/O, and PCI
>>   config space access through the config cap as a fallback, and
>>   are not declared inline anymore
>>
>> * extra parameter is now used by virtnet_probe_modern instead of
>>   specific error code to indicate that a 1.0 device was found
>>
>> * device initialization follows the spec - note that reset,
>>   ACKNOWLEDGE, and DRIVER happen in virtnet_probe_modern and the
>>   rest in virtnet_open_modern
>>
>> * nits, comments, and typos here and there
>>
>>  src/drivers/bus/pciextra.c     |  54 +++++--
>>  src/drivers/bus/virtio-pci.c   | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  src/drivers/bus/virtio-ring.c  |  15 +-
>>  src/drivers/net/virtio-net.c   | 254 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  src/drivers/net/virtio-net.h   |  18 +++
>>  src/include/ipxe/errfile.h     |   1 +
>>  src/include/ipxe/pci.h         |   2 +
>>  src/include/ipxe/virtio-pci.h  | 207 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  src/include/ipxe/virtio-ring.h |  12 +-
>>  9 files changed, 852 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>>
>> [PATCH v2 1/4] [pci] Add pci_find_next_capability
>> [PATCH v2 2/4] [virtio] Add virtio 1.0 constants and data structures
>> [PATCH v2 3/4] [virtio] Add virtio 1.0 PCI support
>> [PATCH v2 4/4] [virtio] Add virtio-net 1.0 support
>
> Looks good.  I posted a few small comments but the overall approach
> makes sense.

Thanks! MST, should I wait for your feedback before sending v3?



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