On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 01:06:32PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09 2023, David Edmondson <> wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday, 2023-02-09 at 07:13:32 -05, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> +In particular, this is
> >> +especially important for features limited to specific transports,
> >> +as enabling these for more transports in future versions of the
> >> +specification is highly likely to require changing the behaviour
> >> +from drivers and devices. Drivers and devices supporting
> >
> > "changing the behaviour of" or "changed behaviour from" (prefer the
>
> former).
>
> Agreed, I'd prefer the former as well.
>
> >
> >> +multiple transports need to carefully maintain per-transport
> >> +lists of allowed features.
> >> +
> >> \drivernormative{\subsection}{Feature Bits}{Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Feature Bits}
> >> The driver MUST NOT accept a feature which the device did not offer,
> >> and MUST NOT accept a feature which requires another feature which was
> >> not accepted.
> >>
> >> +The driver MUST validate the feature bits offered by the device.
> >> +The driver MUST ignore and MUST NOT accept any feature bit that is
> >> +\begin{itemize}
> >> +\item not described in this specification,
> >> +\item marked as reserved,
> >> +\item not supported for the specific transport,
> >
>
> What does "supported" mean here? By the driver? By the specification in
>
> respect of this transport?
>
> Maybe "not specified for the specific transport"?
given in mmio and ccw sections we say things like
+At this time, devices and drivers utilizing Virtio Over MMIO
+do not support the following features:
I tend to agree.
> >
> >> +\item not defined for the device type.
> >> +\end{itemize}
