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Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH 00/14] VIRTIO-71: conformance clauses for legacy interface

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Rusty Russell <>
Date
2014-02-25T06:13:45+00:00
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Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH 00/14] VIRTIO-71: conformance clauses for legacy interface
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <> writes:
> We don't want to maintain 0.9.X - much better if
> virtio 1.0 can supercede it - so we must include
> the conformance statements for the legacy interface
> directly in 1.0.

Our original goal was to do exactly this, and have a document on how
to handle the differences. 

I was going to propose we move it to an appendix and make all the legacy
sections into "Note: Legacy:" notes.

But 90% of my reason was that I didn't want to do the work :)  You've
done most of it already, so I don't mind as much.

Cheers,
Rusty.

> Explain that we have an optional transitional
> module with a set of requiremenents, and
> that these are limited
> to transitional devices.
>
> Addresses
> VIRTIO-71
>
> Michael S. Tsirkin (14):
>   content: explain that legacy support is optional
>   legacy: clarify general note on endian-ness
>   Legacy Interface: Device Configuration Space
>   legacy: make note on legacy VQ endian-ness normative
>   legacy: make message framing normative
>   legacy pci layout: confirmance statements
>   legacy pci layout: extra confirmance statement
>   leacy: layout detection confirmance
>   legacy feature bits: confirmance statements
>   legacy: make all notes on endian-ness confirmance clauses
>   legacy virtqueue layout: confirmance
>   legacy device initialization: confirmance statements
>   conformance: document two types of devices
>   non-transitional devices with legacy drivers
>
>  conformance.tex |  58 +++++++++++-
>  content.tex     | 267 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  2 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
>
> -- 
> MST
>
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