Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:42:18 +0530 | From | Viresh Kumar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] gpio: Add virtio-gpio driver |
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On 14-06-21, 10:07, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 11.06.21 10:01, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > > No, QEMU passes the raw messages to the backend daemon running in host > > userspace (which shares a socket with qemu). The backend understands > > the virtio/vhost protocols and so won't be required to change at all > > if we move from Qemu to something else. And that's what we (Linaro) > > are looking to do here with Project Stratos.
This is one of the ways of using it, via a backend running in host userspace, maybe there are other ways of making this work which I may not have explored, like handling this within qemu.
> Note that this is completely different from my approach that I've posted > in autumn last year. Viresh's protocol hasn't much in common with mine.
The protocol hasn't changed in a sense on how it can be used. Yes few things have moved around, new operations were introduced, but nothing that will make a change at this level. We are trying to use the protocol in one of the possible ways and yours can be different.
-- viresh
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