Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] docs/specs: Add specification of ivshmem device revision 2

[Jan Kiszka]

On 21.05.20 20:18, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 05:53:31PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>
>> Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> From: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> This imports the ivshmem v2 specification draft from Jailhouse where the
>>> implementation is about to be merged now. The final home of the spec is
>>> to be decided, this shall just simplify the review process at this
>>> stage.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  docs/specs/ivshmem-2-device-spec.md | 376 
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 376 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 docs/specs/ivshmem-2-device-spec.md
>>>
>>> diff --git a/docs/specs/ivshmem-2-device-spec.md 
>>> b/docs/specs/ivshmem-2-device-spec.md
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000000..d93cb22b04
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/docs/specs/ivshmem-2-device-spec.md
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,376 @@
>>> +IVSHMEM Device Specification
>>> +============================
>>> +
>>> +** NOTE: THIS IS WORK-IN-PROGRESS, NOT YET A STABLE INTERFACE
>>> SPECIFICATION! **
>>
>> Has there been any proposal to the OASIS virtio spec to use this as a
>> transport for VirtIO?
>>

Not yet, primarily because the second half - virtio over generic shared
memory or even ivshmem2 in particular - has not been written yet. It
only exists as prototypes. Lacking time.

>> -- 
>> Alex Bennée
> 
> 
> I think intergrating this in the virtio spec needs not gate the
> implementation, but I'd like to see the current spec copied to
> virtio-comments list to possibly get comments from that community.
> 
> 

Will do.

Jan

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