Re: [virtio-comment] *-over-virtio

[Rusty Russell <rusty@au1.ibm.com>]

Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> We seem to have a family of several devices that are rather simple on the virtio level. Some
> identifying features include:
>
>   * No real usage of the configuration space
>   * No device features
>   * No control vqs
>   * Usually one, but possibly 2 vqs used for straightforward message passing outside the virtio
> scope.
>
> The use case is simple: use virtio as a simple transport for protocol specific messages, this
> can pretty much go over any other transport exactly the same way.
>
> Would it make sense to move their actual definition out of the spec and just reserve device
> IDs for them there?

Do we have any in the current spec?  It's certainly easy to reserve IDs
for things which aren't in the spec.

Cheers,
Rusty.