Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 07/17] SUPPORT.md: Add virtual devices common to ARM and x86

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 22.11.17 at 20:20, <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mostly PV protocols.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
with a couple of remarks.

> @@ -223,6 +227,152 @@ which add paravirtualized functionality to HVM guests
>  for improved performance and scalability.
>  This includes exposing event channels to HVM guests.
>  
> +## Virtual driver support, guest side

With "guest side" here, ...

> +### Blkfront
> +
> +    Status, Linux: Supported
> +    Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external
> +    Status, NetBSD: Supported, Security support external
> +    Status, OpenBSD: Supported, Security support external
> +    Status, Windows: Supported
> +
> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV block protocol
> +
> +### Netfront
> +
> +    Status, Linux: Supported
> +    States, Windows: Supported
> +    Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external
> +    Status, NetBSD: Supported, Security support external
> +    Status, OpenBSD: Supported, Security support external
> +
> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV networking protocol
> +
> +### PV Framebuffer (frontend)

... is "(frontend)" here (also on entries further down) really useful?
Same for "host side" and "(backend)" then further down.

Also would it perhaps make sense to sort multiple OS entries by
some criteria (name, support status, ...)? Just like we ask that
new source files have #include-s sorted, this helps reduce patch
conflicts when otherwise everyone adds to the end of such lists.

> +### PV SCSI protocol (frontend)
> +
> +    Status, Linux: Supported, with caveats
> +
> +NB that while the PV SCSI backend is in Linux and tested regularly,
> +there is currently no xl support.

Perhaps a copy-and-paste mistake saying "backend" here?

> +### PV Framebuffer (backend)
> +
> +    Status, QEMU: Supported
> +
> +Host-side implementaiton of the Xen PV framebuffer protocol

implementation

Jan


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