Re: [virtio-dev] Backend libraries for VirtIO device emulation

[Alex BennÃe <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <matiasevara@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Alex,
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 06:33:57PM +0000, Alex BennÃe wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> So the context of my question is what sort of common software layer is
>> required to implement a virtio backend entirely in userspace?
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>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
> I am currently investigating the use of metamodeling to capture virtio
> concepts. The work is still a draft but you can give a look at
> https://github.com/MatiasVara/virtioml. One of the ideas is to base on a
> metamodel to generate the code for different targets, e.g., rust,
> c, etc. For the moment, I just played by generating the c header. This
> could be extended to other languages.

Thanks for the pointer, I shall have a look.

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Alex BennÃe