Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: add block topology support

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jul 31 2011 - 14:24:28 EST


On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:22:42PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I guess you could just remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECTOR_MAX from the spec.
> > Linux did not implement it, and virtualbox does not have virtio block
> > support at all. Are there any other known users, who might have
> > implemented the VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECTOR_MAX feature?
>
> Did qemu implement it? If not, we'll simply kill it, and pretend it
> never happened...

It was never added to either qemu or the kernel. It would really help
if we had a copy of the spec in a readable format (that is plain text)
in major implementations of virtio like qemu and the kernel.
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