Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757134AbZDNVx5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:53:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754270AbZDNVxp (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:53:45 -0400 Received: from ovro.ovro.caltech.edu ([192.100.16.2]:38767 "EHLO ovro.ovro.caltech.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754096AbZDNVxo (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:53:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:53:42 -0700 From: Ira Snyder To: Grant Likely Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Rusty Russell , Jan-Bernd Themann , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC v2] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver Message-ID: <20090414215342.GB9877@ovro.caltech.edu> References: <20090224000002.GA578@ovro.caltech.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (ovro.ovro.caltech.edu); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1688 Lines: 37 On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:28:26PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Ira Snyder wrote: > > This adds support to Linux for using virtio between two computers linked by > > a PCI interface. This allows the use of virtio_net to create a familiar, > > fast interface for communication. It should be possible to use other virtio > > devices in the future, but this has not been tested. > > Hey Ira, > > I like this a lot. I need to do much the same thing on one of my > platforms, so I'm going to use your patch as my starting point. Have > you made many changes since you posted this version of your patch? > I'd like to collaborate on the development and help to get it > mainlined. > This would be great. I'd really appreciate the help. I haven't had time to make any changes since I last posted the patch. I started work on converting all of the usage of struct vop_loc_* to just use the on-wire structures, but I didn't get very far before other work got in the way. > In my case I've got an MPC5200 as the 'host' and a Xilinx Virtex > (ppc440) as the 'client'. I intend set aside a region of the Xilinx > Virtex's memory space for the shared queues. I'm starting work on it > now, and I'll provide you with feedback and/or patches as I make > progress. > I'm looking forward to seeing your implementation. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to attempt to answer them :) Ira -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/