Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too

2011-07-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:35:46 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > > virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, > > and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch > > Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. > >

Re: [RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too

2011-07-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 07/05/2011 07:06 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, > and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch > Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. > > Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications,

[RFC] virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too

2011-07-05 Thread Ohad Ben-Cohen
virtio has been so far used only in the context of virtualization, and the virtio Kconfig was sourced directly by the relevant arch Kconfigs when VIRTUALIZATION was selected. Now that we start using virtio for inter-processor communications, we need to source the virtio Kconfig outside of the virt