On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:00:46 -0400
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <> wrote:
> Clarify that:
> - non-transitional just satisfy 3 main clauses
> - transitional also has a legacy interface:
>
however note that it's not an optional component
>
*for transitional devices* so MAY is inappropriate
> - legacy device descriptions are non-normative.
>
In fact virtio 0.9 is non-normative as a whole
>
and always was by design: it was early days and
>
spec evolved to document bugs in implementations.
>
> VIRTIO-167
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <>
> ---
>
> Changes from v1:
> address remaining comments by Cornelia
> Changes from v1:
> address comments by Cornelia
>
> conformance.tex | 26 ++++++++++++++++++
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> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <>
