Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/11] qemu: towards virtio-1 host support

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:24:22 -0700
Andy Lutomirski <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10/07/2014 07:39 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > This patchset aims to get us some way to implement virtio-1 compliant
> > and transitional devices in qemu. Branch available at
> > 
> > git://github.com/cohuck/qemu virtio-1
> > 
> > I've mainly focused on:
> > - endianness handling
> > - extended feature bits
> > - virtio-ccw new/changed commands
> 
> At the risk of some distraction, would it be worth thinking about a
> solution to the IOMMU bypassing mess as part of this?

I think that is a whole different issue. virtio-1 is basically done - we
just need to implement it - while the IOMMU/DMA stuff certainly needs
more discussion. Therefore, I'd like to defer to the other discussion
thread here.