virtio — archive

[Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>]

generally list of buses is out of date, list all supported buses. Drop explicit mention of lguest since it's not part of the spec. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> --- introduction.tex 10 +++++ ----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/introduction.tex b/introduction.tex index 745fabf..e7276bf 100644 --- a/introduction.tex +++ b/introduction.tex @@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ inter-guest communication) requires copying. Standard: Virtio makes no assumptions about the environment in which it operates, beyond supporting the bus to which device is attached. In this specification, virtio - devices are implemented over PCI and other buses, and earlier drafts + devices are implemented over MMIO, Channel I/O and PCI bus transports +footnote{The Linux implementation further separates the virtio +transport code from the specific virtio drivers: these drivers are shared +between different transports. +}, earlier drafts have been implemented on other buses not included here. -footnote{The Linux implementation further separates the PCI virtio code -from the specific virtio drivers: these drivers are shared with -the non-PCI implementations (currently lguest and S/390). -} Extensible: Virtio devices contain feature bits which are acknowledged by the guest operating system during device setup. -- MST