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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:42:55 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:41:26AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 12/13/09 21:43, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> Add features property to virtio. This makes it
>> possible to e.g. define machine without indirect
>> buffer support, which is required for 0.10
>> compatibility. or without hardware checksum
>> support, which is required for 0.11 compatibility.
>
> I'd suggest to add flags for the individual features to the drivers
> which actually use it instead, so you'll have
>
> -device virtio-net-pci,hw-checksum=0
>
> and
>
> -device virtio-blk-pci,indirect-buffers=0
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
Hmm. I hoped to avoid it, there are lots of features so it's a lot of
work and in practice, this will most likely be set by machine
description ...
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MST
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Markus Armbruster, 2009/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: add features qdev property, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/14