Re: [Xen-devel] 9p file system for xen

[Linda <lindaj@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12/1/2015 4:47 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:19:18PM -0500, Neil Sikka wrote:
> > Hi Wei, could you please explain why/how you would have done the project
> > differently now and why these patches are not "good"? From my conversation
> > with Linda, I understood that her code is "Independent of virtio except the
> > 9pvirtio specific code, which is used extensively."
> I need to implement a xen transport for 9pfs. Linda was essentially
> doing the same. But she didn't specify the canonical protocol between
> frontend and backend.
For my own edification:  In the interests of the limited time of my 
internship, we decided I shouldn't do the initialization using the xen 
toolstack.  Were there are other expediencies that I'm unaware of?
I tried to follow the xen handshaking protocol between front and back 
end at startup.
Thanks.

Linda
> As for "9pvirtio specific code", I think there is misunderstanding
> because though a lot of files in QEMU are prefixed with virtio they are
> actually not specific to virtio at all. I think the "independent of
> virtio ..." part was referring to the new transport she wrote.
>
> Wei.

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