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478 & 15 Mar 2015 & Cornelia Huck & {VIRTIO-129: legacy:
clean up virtqueue layout definitions

Generalize "Legacy Interfaces: A Note on Virtqueue Layout" to allow
for different alignment requirements. Have pci and ccw refer to that
section for legacy devices. Remove the double definition of virtqueue
alignment (which referred to legacy, but was not tagged as such) from
the ccw section.
See \ref{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues /
Legacy Interfaces: A Note on Virtqueue Layout}, \ref{sec:Virtio
Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI Bus / PCI-specific
Initialization And Device Operation / Device Initialization /
Virtqueue Configuration / Legacy Interface: A Note on Virtqueue
Configuration} and \ref{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio
over channel I/O / Device Initialization / Configuring a
Virtqueue / Legacy Interface: A Note on Configuring a Virtqueue}.
 } \\
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479 & 15 Mar 2015 & Cornelia Huck & {VIRTIO-118:
ccw: clarify basic channel commands

"Basic channel commands" seems to be not as clear as it
could, so let's spell out which channel commands we refer to.
See \ref{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio over channel I/O /
Basic Concepts}.
} \\
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479 & 15 Mar 2015 & Cornelia Huck & {VIRTIO-116:
ccw: allow WRITE_STATUS to fail
    
We want to be able to fail setting a status on the device
(e.g.  FEATURES_OK if the device can't work with the features
negotiated).
The easiest way to do that is to allow the device to fail the
WRITE_STATUS command by posting a command reject.
See \ref{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio over channel I/O /
Device Initialization / Communicating Status Information}.
 } \\
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485 & 15 Mar 2015 & Jason Wang & {VIRTIO-135:
virtio-ring: comment fixup
    
virtio_ring.h included with spec has this text:
/* Support for avail_idx and used_idx fields */
it should really refer to avail_event and used_event.
See Appendix \ref{sec:virtio-ring.h}.
 } \\
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486 & 15 Mar 2015 & Jason Wang & {VIRTIO-136:
document idx field in virtqueue used ring

Section \ref{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues
/ The Virtqueue Used Ring} The Virtqueue Used Ring
listed the idx field, but never documented it.
See \ref{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues /
The Virtqueue Used Ring}.
 } \\
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487 & 15 Mar 2015 & Rusty Russell & {VIRTIO-130:
ISR status: Fix incorrect diagram

ISR status capability diagram has the "Device Configuration
Interrupt " as bit 0, and the "Queue Interrupt" as bit 1. This is
the wrong way around: it disagrees with the legacy
implementations, as well as the spec elsewhere.

All current guests correctly follow the text, fix
up the diagram to match.
See \ref{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI Bus / PCI
Device Layout / ISR status capability}.
 } \\
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488 & 15 Mar 2015 & Rusty Russell & {VIRTIO-133:
Change 4.1.5.1.2.1 to device requirement

4.1.5.1.2.1 is incorrectly labelled as a driver requirement; it's
self-evidently referring to the device.
See \ref{sec:Conformance / Driver Conformance / PCI Driver
Conformance}, \ref{sec:Conformance / Device Conformance / PCI
Device Conformance} and \ref{devicenormative:Virtio
Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI Bus / PCI-specific
Initialization And Device Operation / Device Initialization /
Non-transitional Device With Legacy Driver}.
 } \\
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504 & 22 Apr 2015 & Rusty Russell & {VIRTIO-137:
define the meaning and requirements of the len field.
    
We said what it was for, and noted why.  We didn't place any
requirements on it, nor clearly spell out the implications of its use.
    
This clarification comes particularly from noticing that QEMU
didn't set len correctly, and philosophising over the correct value
when an error has occurred.
See \ref{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues /
The Virtqueue Used Ring}, \ref{devicenormative:Basic Facilities
of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues / The Virtqueue Used Ring} and
\ref{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues / The
Virtqueue Used Ring}.
 } \\
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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}.
} \\
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508 & 22 Apr 2015 & Michael Tsirkin & {VIRTIO-139:
pci: missing documentation for dealing with 64 bit config fields
    
pci spec says what width access to use for 32, 16 and 8
bit fields, but does not explicitly say what to do for
32 bit fields. As we have text that says driver must
treat 64 bit accesses as non-atomic, this seems
to imply driver should always do two 32 bit wide accesses.

Let's make this an explicit requirement, and require
devices to support this.

See \ref{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI Bus / PCI
Device Layout}, \ref{drivernormative:Virtio Transport Options /
Virtio Over PCI Bus / PCI Device Layout},
\ref{devicenormative:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI
Bus / PCI Device Layout} and \ref{sec:Conformance / Driver
Conformance / PCI Driver Conformance}.
 } \\
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510 & 22 Apr 2015 & Michael Tsirkin & {conformance:
add VIRTIO-137 statement links

Add links to new conformance statements added to
resolve VIRTIO-137 (describing used ring entry len usage).

See \ref{sec:Conformance / Device Conformance}
and \ref{sec:Conformance / Driver Conformance}.
 } \\
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