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| author | mstsirkin <mstsirkin@0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652> | 2015-04-22 11:26:17 +0000 |
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| committer | mstsirkin <mstsirkin@0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652> | 2015-04-22 11:26:17 +0000 |
| commit | 29b3906c61385501ec846d5163cabf1bcc32b73f (patch) | |
| tree | cc69033a957c0eb9536081bd626c525742b05d90 /cl-os.tex | |
| parent | 8aae5034956b183536aae59586541a783e78c4e4 (diff) | |
cl: list r506 and VIRTIO-138
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
git-svn-id: https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/virtio/branches/v1.0@515 0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652
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@@ -99,6 +99,38 @@ of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues / The Virtqueue Used Ring} and Virtqueue Used Ring}. } \\ \hline +506 & 22 Apr 2015 & Michael Tsirkin & {VIRTIO-138: +multiple errors: Non-transitional With Legacy + +virtio 1.0 has two sections titled "Non-transitional Device With +Legacy Driver" the first says devices SHOULD fail, the second +says devices MUST fail. Clearly a mistake. + +Other issues: devices don't really fail - they cause drivers to +fail. second section seems to be in the wrong place, and also +have a section followed by subsection with no explanatory text in +between, which is ugly. +Finally, this text was originally ritten to handle buggy windows +drivers gracefully, but later we changed device IDs so it's not +really required there. Might be handy for some other buggy legacy +drivers, though no such drivers are known. + +To fix, drop the duplicate section variant, add some explanatory +text, clarify what does "same ID" mean here, and clarify +that the work-around is only needed if a buggy driver +is known to bind to a transitional device. + +See \ref{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio +Over PCI Bus / PCI Device Layout / Non-transitional Device With +Legacy Driver: A Note on PCI Device Layout}, +\ref{devicenormative:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI +Bus / PCI-specific Initialization And Device Operation / Device +Initialization / Non-transitional Device With Legacy Driver} and +\ref{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI Bus / +PCI-specific Initialization And Device Operation / Device +Initialization}. +} \\ +\hline 508 & 22 Apr 2015 & Michael Tsirkin & {VIRTIO-139: pci: missing documentation for dealing with 64 bit config fields |