Kernel Patches to support virtio

Edward O'Callaghan eocallaghan at auroraux.org
Mon Jan 24 23:26:32 PST 2011


Hi Tim,

Nice work, keep it up!
I'm not sure, however may I request that some of those kprintf's be a
little more informative please? I saw one that just says "error" while
looking at the function virtio_pci_probe_and_attach_child.

Regards,
Edward.

On 25 January 2011 17:10, Tim Bisson <bissont at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are the proposed kernel changes which allow the virtio drivers (ported
> from FreeBSD) to build:
>
> * 0001-make-device_probe_child-public.patch makes device_probe_child()
> public, used by virtio_pci.c:
> http://gitorious.org/dbd-virtio-drivers-freebsd-port/dbd-virtio-drivers-freebsd-port/blobs/master/pci/virtio_pci.c#line693
>
> * 0001-Pull-in-FreeBSD-sglist.patch is the scatter/gather library used by
> virtio-net.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>



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