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Introduce APIs to execute legacy IO admin commands. It includes: io_legacy_read/write for both common and the device configuration, io_legacy_notify_info. In addition, exposing an API to check whether the legacy IO commands are supported. (i.e. virtio_pci_admin_has_legacy_io()). Those APIs will be used by the next patches from this series. Note: Unlike modern drivers which support hardware virtio devices, legacy drivers assume software-based devices: e.g. they don't use proper memory barriers on ARM, use big endian on PPC, etc. X86 drivers are mostly ok though, more or less by chance. For now, only support legacy IO on X86. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219093247.170936-7-yishaih@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.