[SLOF] [PATCH 0/3] virtio-9p improvements

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Mon May 2 14:13:33 AEST 2016


On 04/26/2016 08:02 PM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Here are three small patches with some improvements for virtio-9p:
>>
>> 1) Give a proper name to the 9p device tree node
>>
>> 2) Add support for virtio 1.0
>>    (that was fortunately pretty easy thanks to the good virtio 1.0
>>     infrastructure that Nikunj already added to libvirtio)
>>
>> 3) Some white space clean-ups
>>
>> I've tested the virtio 1.0 9p code by adding the following parameters
>> to the QEMU command line:
>>
>>  -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=fsdev0,mount_tag=hostshare,disable-legacy=on,disable-modern=off \
>>  -fsdev local,security_model=passthrough,id=fsdev0,path=/path/to/bootfolder
>>
>> That means by using disable-legacy=on, I made sure that the 9p device
>> here only supports v1.0, and not the legacy layout anymore. Then at
>> the SLOF prompt, I was able to load some file a la:
>>
>>  boot virtfs:ppc64.img
>>
>> Thomas Huth (3):
>>   virtio: Set a proper name for virtio-9p device tree nodes
>>   virtio: Add modern version 1.0 support to 9p driver
>>   virtio: White space cleanup in virtio-9p.c

Thanks, applied.


>
> Cool, for the series
>
> Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>


Please reply to individual patches with "rb" as the patchworks does not 
pick "r-b"s from the cover letter so I have to add them manually...


>
>>
>>  board-qemu/slof/Makefile                |  1 +
>>  board-qemu/slof/pci-device_1af4_1009.fs |  1 +
>>  board-qemu/slof/pci-device_1af4_1049.fs |  4 +++
>>  lib/libvirtio/virtio-9p.c               | 49 +++++++++++++++++----------------
>>  4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 board-qemu/slof/pci-device_1af4_1049.fs
>>
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>


-- 
Alexey


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