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Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] Feedback for chapter 4
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:22:58 +1030 Rusty Russell <rusty@au1.ibm.com> wrote: > Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > > Here's my feedback for Virtio draft 01, chapter 4: > > Page 36: > > > > - "Bit numbers start at the left" > > => I'd make this sentence more explicit, e.g.: > > "Bit numbers start at the left, i.e. the most significant bit in the > > first byte is assigned the bit number 0." > > Cornelia, is this correct? Looks OK. > > > Page 36 / Notification via Adapter I/O Interrupts: > > > > - "The guest-provided summary indicator is also set." > > => What value is set in the summary indicator byte? 0x01? 0x80? 0xff? > > It maybe does not matter, since any non-zero value could be used, but > > it might help to avoid confusion if you specify the exact value here. > > Punting this to Cornelia too... In practice, 0 vs. !0 should be enough, as we use the summary-indicator only to signal that a bit in the matching indicator area has been set (unlike PCI, which uses an indicator area per bit). But let's specify what our code does, just to avoid confusion: "The guest-provided summary indicator is set to 0x01." > > > Page 37 / Early printk for Virtio Consoles > > > > - Is this early print really part of virtio-ccw? If yes, I think you > > should also describe the register usage here. > > Good catch. Well, I'd probably drop it. It is more a toleration for some code that never went upstream; the last thing we want is more users of this interface.
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