Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 10:33 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> It is worthwhile, when designing virtio, to keep in mind as many >> possible users as possible. In addition to block and net, I see at >> least the following: [...] > Framebuffer is an interesting one. Virtio doesn't assume shared memory, > so naively the fb you would just send outbufs describing changed memory. > This would work, but describing rectangles is better. A helper might be > the right approach here
Wouldn't that be slow? Xen's PV framebuffer tracks dirty areas with page granularity. > Lguest doesn't have a framebuffer, so maybe this is a good thing for me > to hack on, but I promised myself I'd finish NAPI for the net device, > and tag for block device first. That would be nice. It usually takes more than one implementation to get an abstraction right. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
