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Subject: [PATCH 09/14] legacy feature bits: confirmance statements
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content.tex | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
index 2de0644..58402f3 100644
--- a/content.tex
+++ b/content.tex
@@ -4352,20 +4352,25 @@ and should not be used.
\section{Legacy Interface: Reserved Feature Bits}\label{sec:Reserved Feature Bits / Legacy Interface: Reserved Feature Bits}
-Legacy or transitional devices may offer the following:
-
+Transitional devices MAY offer the following:
\begin{description}
-\item[VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY (24)] Negotiating this feature
- indicates that the driver wants an interrupt if the device runs
+\item[VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY (24)] If this feature
+ has been negotiated by driver, the device MUST issue
+ an interrupt if the device runs
out of available descriptors on a virtqueue, even though
interrupts are suppressed using the VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT
- flag or the \field{used_event} field. An example of this is the
+ flag or the \field{used_event} field. An example of a driver
+ using this feature is the legacy
networking driver: it doesn't need to know every time a packet
is transmitted, but it does need to free the transmitted
packets a finite time after they are transmitted. It can avoid
using a timer if the device interrupts it when all the packets
are transmitted.
+\end{description}
+Transitional devices MUST offer, and if offered by the device
+traditional drivers MUST negotiate the following:
+\begin{description}
\item[VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT (27)] This feature indicates that the device
accepts arbitrary descriptor layouts, as described in Section
\ref{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues / Message Framing / Legacy Interface: Message Framing}~\nameref{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues / Message Framing / Legacy Interface: Message Framing}.
--
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