Virtio TC Meeting Minutes: Nov 5, 2013

["Venteicher, Bryan" <Bryan.Venteicher@netapp.com>]

Hi - Here are the minutes of the Nov. 5 meeting.


1. Opening and minuting rotation selection.

    Bryan's turn to take minutes

2. Reminder to sign in
   - 
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/virtio/event.php?event_id=359
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   - Apologies received from Anthony Liguori

3. Review of previous minutes.
   - https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio/201310/msg00204.html

   Accept -­ Rusty
   Second - Pawel
   No objections

4. Review of subversion minor commits.
  - r73 virtio-ccw: clarify some channel I/O concepts
  - r77 .. r81: endian notation clarifications
  - r82 ccw: Tweak the comments on endianess.
  - r83 ccw: Remove reference to old s390-virtio transport.
  - r84 ccw: Improve indicator wording.
  - r85 typo fix: 8-bite->8-bit

    Accept - Rusty
    Second - Pawel
    No objections

5. Review of outstanding bug tracker proposals

  Virtio 48 - require drivers to be future proof

     Accept - Rusty
     Second - Michael
     No objections

  Virtio 47 - MMIO: Describe reset conditions and state
     Accept - Rusty
     Second - Pawel
     No objections

  Virtio 42 - ccw: Provide a revision mechanism.
     Accept - Rusty
     Second - Pawel
     No objections

  Virtio 39 - pci device operation without BAR access
     Accept - Rusty
     Second - Michael
     No objections

  Virtio 34 - make legacy drivers fail cleanly on non transitional devices
     Accept - Rusty
     Second - Michael
     No objections

  Virtio 28 - Implement new balloon device (ID 13)
     Still further discussion to make device more Xen like and other
     behavior. Defer additional of new balloon until a later draft.
    
     Accept - Rusty
     Second - Pawel

6. Towards a Committee Specification Public Review Draft

   - Motion to set this as a Committee Specification Draft.
   - Motion that editors and chair to turn this into proposal
     for Committee Specification Public Review Draft, advise
     stakeholders and other associated work.


    After the changes from this meeting are committed, use it as the start
    of the formal specification draft.
    Rusty proposes Pawel, Cornelia, Michael, and himself as the editors.

    Accept - Rusty
    Second - Pawel
    No objections

7. Any other business.

   Michael mentions two suggestions Rusty listed an earlier email:


        1) We should unconditionally recommend resetting the device as
           First step.  It's good practice.

        2) We should not suggest that notifications occur in the
           no-free-descriptor case.  It's bad advice, and only helps with
           Buggy hosts.


    Accept - Rusty
    Second - Michael
    No objections

  Virtio 45 - Timer/clock device

    Rusty says this is a good idea and welcomes a patch, but it can come
    in a later revision.

8. Confirmation of meeting schedule.

    Next meeting will be in 4 weeks.