[virtio-dev][RFC 0/2] Signal Distribution Module virtio device specification

[Christian Pinto <c.pinto@virtualopensystems.com>]

Hi all,

This patch series proposes the specification of a new virtio device on which we
are working on, namely the Signal Distribution Module (SDM). 
The SDM routes inter-processor signals intra and inter QEMU
instances, using a user-defined communication channel. At the current state the 
SDM provides a local channel, for intra-QEMU signals, and a channel based on
sockets (UNIX or TCP) to exchange signals between processors in different
instances of QEMU. Each communication channel exports a common interface for 
the sake of ease of extension and integration of new channels.

In addition to the virtio version, a platform device version is available as
well to be used for cases where a processor is not running Linux but another
OS/firmware that does not support virtio.

This patch is related to :

[Qemu-devel][RFC v3 0/6] SDM Interface

where you can find the latest RFC patch set for the QEMU code of the virtio SDM 
device.

Kernel code is publicly accessible from:

https://git.virtualopensystems.com/dev/qemu-het-tools

branch sdm_test_virtio_mod_v2.


QEMU code is accessible from:

https://git.virtualopensystems.com/dev/qemu-het-tools

branch sdm-dev-v3

Thanks,

Christian

Christian Pinto (2):
  content: reserve virtio device ID
  virtio-sdm: new device specification

 content.tex    |   4 ++
 virtio-sdm.tex | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 130 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 virtio-sdm.tex

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