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mei: virtio: virtualization frontend driver
authorTomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:51:47 +0000 (14:51 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:44:44 +0000 (15:44 +0200)
commit73852cb781d3a2179403064a70c88cfdf4ff6aa1
tree778a922b37bce8ad8e0bad96e2338fdf8023751c
parent5ab26a67250a5dba1623eaa00399f0fd80403fff
mei: virtio: virtualization frontend driver

This frontend driver implements MEI hw interface based on virtio
framework to let MEI driver work without changes under virtualization.
It requires a backend service in the ACRN device-model on the service
OS side to make it work. The backend service will emulate mei routing
and assign vtags for each mei vritio device.

The backend service is available in ACRN device-model at github.
For more information, please refer to https://projectacrn.org

The ACRN virtio sub device id for MEI is is 0x8602.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Yu <yu1.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Shuo <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818115147.2567012-14-tomas.winkler@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/mei/Kconfig
drivers/misc/mei/Makefile
drivers/misc/mei/hw-virtio.c [new file with mode: 0644]