[PATCH 02/02] virtio: Add virtio platform driver

Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2011-06-24T04:08:50Z

Thanks for the explanation. I also thought of same purpose for this patch but I
got confused by function names and data structure names in the patch. They still
have lguest in it.

Thanks
-Bharat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Damm [mailto:magnus.damm at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 6:44 AM
> To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; vapier at gentoo.org; mst at
redhat.com;
> linux-sh at vger.kernel.org; virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/02] virtio: Add virtio platform driver
>
> Hi Bhushan Bharat,
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> <R65777 at freescale.com> wrote:
> > What purpose this virtio platform driver serves? Are you trying to
make
> driver layers here and each virtio device driver can hook up into this
> platform driver. Is that correct ?
>
> The idea behind the virto platform driver is to have a reusable layer
> that handles common virtio and vring functionality. Regular virtio
> drivers for console, network and disk and interfacing to the virtio
> platform driver, so these paravirtualized drivers can with this virtio
> platform driver easily be reused by embedded platforms.
>
> Vendor specific code is abstracted away from the virtio platform driver
> and interfaced to using regular interrupts and SoC-specific callbacks. So
> with this patch virtio can be interfaced as any regular platform driver.
> This version of the driver is simply reusing the configuration method
> from lguest.
>
> If you want to see all code involved (including extremely experimental
> backing drivers) then have a look at:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg07188.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> / magnus