Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Zang Roy-R61911 wrote:

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>> To: Ira Snyder
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann; Jan-Bernd Themann; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
>> Rusty Russell; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
>> Subject: Re: [RFC v1] virtio: add virtio-over-PCI driver
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>> On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Ira Snyder wrote:
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>>> Documentation/virtio-over-PCI.txt     |   61 ++
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc834x_mds.dts |    7 +
>>
>> we'll have to review the .dts and expect a documentation update for
>> the node.  But that's pretty minor at this point.
>>
>>> drivers/virtio/Kconfig                |   22 +
>>> drivers/virtio/Makefile               |    2 +
>>> drivers/virtio/vop.h                  |  119 ++
>>> drivers/virtio/vop_fsl.c              | 1911
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> +++++++++
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>> make this vop_fsl_mpc83xx.c or something along those lines.
> why?

so we can deal with 85xx as well.  We just need to isolate the 83xx  
specific bits (message usage)

- k