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

Nikunj A Dadhania nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 2 14:18:03 AEST 2016


Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru> writes:

> 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...

Sure, will take care next time onwards

Regards
Nikunj



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