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Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] virtio and endian-ness


On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:05:43 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> > One idea might be that all devices start out in 'legacy mode' and we
> > add either a feature bit or a new channel command that switches to
> > 'standard mode'. Old hosts would reject that command, while old guests
> > would simply not issue it.
> > 
> > Another idea is to look at the read_conf/write_conf channel commands
> > and introduce a new pair of read_conf_le/write_conf_le commands. Again,
> > compatibility would be achived via the host doing command rejects.
> > 
> > We also have the possibility to convey extra information about the
> > control unit (the device) in the 'extended sense id data' via the sense
> > id command. Basically, we can encode some supported channel commands in
> > there, but we would need a new command type for that architectured.
> > We'd still need to rely on the command rejects mentioned above, though.
> 
> If guest can discover whether host supports the new layout,
> why would there be any rejects?

If we want to support old guests on new hosts, we'll have to rely on
this.



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