4.1.5.1.4.1 of the spec does say that a page is 4096 for the purposes of legacy
virtio, but 2.4.2 just talks about pages. you think i should just use an
explicit 4096 instead of PGROUND/BY2PG here?
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On Mon Dec 1 20:17:56 PST 2014, misch...@9.offblast.org wrote:
> hello,
>
> if anyone is interested in using or reviewing my ethervirtio driver, here it
> is.
>
> http://9.offblast.org/stuff/ethervirtio.c
>
> this driver was written for 386 and amd64 9front, but according to a short
> test i did a few months ago, it should work in the labs' kernel. it would be
> interesting to know if it works in 9atom too.
>
> i tested qemu 1.5, 1.7 and some version around 2.0.
>
> david (0intro) tested the driver on GCE a few months ago, and reported that
> it did *not* work. i don't recall what exactly happened, but the virtio
> device in GCE seems to differ from qemu's.
>
> if you run into trouble, you can mail me back or contact me on freenode irc,
> where my handle is mischief.
what do you mean by PGROUND here, and BY2PG. do you really mean an explicit
4096 bytes?
- erik
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