Re: [Alacrityvm-devel] [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" busmodel for vbus_driver objects

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/19/2009 07:29 PM, Ira W. Snyder wrote:
>    
> > virtio-$yourhardware or maybe virtio-dma
> >
> >      
> How about virtio-phys?
>    

Could work.

> Arnd and BenH are both looking at PPC systems (similar to mine). Grant
> Likely is looking at talking to an processor core running on an FPGA,
> IIRC. Most of the code can be shared, very little should need to be
> board-specific, I hope.
>    

Excellent.

> > > That said, I'm not sure how qemu-system-ppc running on x86 could
> > > possibly communicate using virtio-net. This would mean the guest is an
> > > emulated big-endian PPC, while the host is a little-endian x86. I
> > > haven't actually tested this situation, so perhaps I am wrong.
> > >
> > >        
> > I'm confused now.  You don't actually have any guest, do you, so why
> > would you run qemu at all?
> >
> >      
> I do not run qemu. I am just stating a problem with virtio-net that I
> noticed. This is just so someone more knowledgeable can be aware of the
> problem.
>
>    

Ah, it certainly doesn't byteswap.  Maybe nobody tried it.  Hollis?

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