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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:12:08 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] gpio: Add virtio-gpio driver
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:08 AM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<lkml@metux.net> 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.
>
> 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.

That's why we have a thing called standard. And AFAIU virtio API/ABIs
should be officially registered and standardized.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko