\uD83D\uDDD3 Date
\uD83D\uDC65 Participants
Christopher Clark
\uD83E\uDD45 Agenda
Next VirtIO device discussion
Follow-up on actions
\uD83D\uDDE3 Discussion topics
VirtIO devices
AB: the wifi simulation was originally targeting UML
AJB: is it still a thing?
AB: yes, although not used in production anymore
AJB: exploring the use case for wifi
AJB: can netlink be plumbed into normal ethernet devices
AB: already is
AJB: so could we just add additional features to virtio-net
AB: I don’t see why not
AJB: who to talk to?
AB: maybe Lee Jones? probably bug fixes
$ git log --format=%ae v3.0.. -- drivers/net/wireless/ | grep linaro | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
145 lee.jones@linaro.org
77 bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org
40 loic.poulain@linaro.org
26 bjorn.andersson@linaro.org
9 sachin.kamat@linaro.org
7 linus.walleij@linaro.org
5 andy.green@linaro.org
4 srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
AJB: any thoughts on on virtio-gpu
AB: fundamentally it’s HW specific
AJB: doesn’t OpenCL abstract things?
AB: lots of layers with trade offs
AB: virtio-gpu should work for a lot of the NPU abstractions
AB: although there are some simplere ones just matrix multipliers
AB: GVE
looks like a SR-IOV type device (much like AWS approach)
LG: could be SmartNIC with virtual devices
Action items
VG: still to chase up SCMI bindings