[PATCH] pc386: Add virtio network driver

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello Pavel,

On 30/05/16 15:57, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> Hello Jin-Hyun and Sebastian,
>
> On Monday 30 of May 2016 15:06:40 Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> >Wouldn't it make sense to use the libbsd for this network interface driver?
> my feeling is that from long run perspective is libBSD.
>
> But I think that virtio netwok included in basic RTEMS stack is very
> important which is based on assumption that there are more people
> who use and are familiar with RTEMS integrated stack than who
> started to use libBSD.
>
> So I personally like idea to include this option to the standard sources.
> I would like a little more if x86 specific part of virtio ends
> in c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/virtio, but common part which can
> be reused for other architectures and network driver specific part
> is placed in rtems/c/src/lib/libbsp/shared and rtems/c/src/libchip/network.
>
> It would worth to add x86 virtio to libBSD and even to lwIP
> to have option to test all these stacks under quite spread KVM
> based virtualization/test environment.
>
> But generally, I would like if the code can be accepted to mainline.

the x86 architecture is not really interesting for me. So, I am not 
against a mainline integration. However, I think we reached a dead end 
with the pc386 BSP. The RTEMS driver infrastructure is not capable 
enough to deal with a plug-and-play architecture like x86.

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