Re: [RFC] Virtio support v1
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Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> writes:
> Hi!
>
> Attached is a patchset adding support for virtio net and block devices.
>
> There is only three small patches:
> * a new "virtio-modules" package is added to kernel-wedge,
> * virtio-modules is built for i386 (and should be added in the future
> to other architectures supported by qemu),
> * a small change is done to partman's humandev, reusing Xen virtual
> disks templates.
>
> Both network and block drivers are loaded automatically and no other
> components require, as far as I have seen, further modifications.
> grub-installer has been taught about virtio block devices by Colin in
> r52925.
>
> The speed improvements seems quite important from my tests, so I
> really think this is a worthwhile inclusion (at least for us, d-i
> developpers ;) ).
This looks OK from my side to commit.
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