On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 19:57 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > There's a third option: try to make virtio-mmio work everywhere > (except s390), at least in the long run. This other benefits: it > makes minimal hypervisors simpler, I think it'll get rid of the limits > on the number of virtio devices in a system. ARM is already going > this direction, and I imagine that PPC support would be > straightforward (it's already using devicetree).
PCI has advantages though. Management stacks know about PCI and nothing else really. We already have all the infra to do hotplug with PCI, etc... > Does virtio-mmio have any reasonable way of doing hotplug? It could > also eventually make sense to have a standard for virtio on virtio. That would be very platform specific. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
