Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH 0/1] virtio-pmem: Support PCI BAR-relative addresses

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Cornelia Huck <>
Date
2021-07-22T11:41:32+00:00
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Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH 0/1] virtio-pmem: Support PCI BAR-relative addresses
On Thu, Jul 22 2021, Pankaj Gupta <> wrote:

> Hi Cornelia,
>
>> > This patch updates the virtio-pmem spec to add support for describing the pmem
>> > region via PCI BARs. This is required to support virtio-pmem in Hyper-V, since
>> > Hyper-V only allows PCI devices to operate on memory ranges defined via BARs.
>> >
>> > As virtio-pmem hasn't been added to the virtio spec yet (see this issue [1]),
>> > this patch is based off the RFC spec [2]. The linux driver implementation has
>> > been posted at [3].
>>
>> What's the general status of the pmem spec? I had pinged in the issue,
>> but I have not seen any progress.
>
> Appologies for missing your ping (As I was down for some time). I will
> try to post the
> virtio-pmem spec new version in coming week.

Thanks, that's good news!