RE: [virtio] [PATCH] virtio-net subcommittee proposal

[Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>]

> From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 12:00 PM

> One of my main issues with explicitly talking about PCI(e) is the risk of
> introducing something that is not only something that can optionally improve
> things for pci, but that might be detrimental to other transports without the
> proponents realizing it: if you focus on one transport, you can easily miss issues
> that may come up for other transports. virtio-net is a very fundamental type of
> device that everybody needs; we must not make things worse for non-pci users.
> (Devices like virtio-scmi that are very platform specific from the start are a
> different story.)
> 
We don't want to make things worse for non-pci.
The way we see it, it may not be available on the non pci users.

And if there is real user base there from device provider side and consumer side, they will join the SC anyway and propose mmio extension.

> Regarding current ccw development: I'm not that much directly involved with it
> anymore, maybe Halil can provide some insights.

Will wait for Halil to comment.