Request a first public review for Virtio 1.1

Submitted on Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 19:32
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Your name: Michael S. Tsirkin
TC name: Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC
TC email address: virtio@lists.oasis-open.org
This ticket requests: Publish Committee Draft and release for public review
Title: Virtio 1.1 Committee Specification Draft 12122018
Approval link:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/virtio/ballot.php?id=3287
Abstract:
This is the first public review of version 1.1 of the Virtio specification.
Notable additions in this draft:

• Multiple new devices: GPU device, Input device, Crypto device
• Support for better portability for Virtio Accelerators
• New ring layout format

Notable omissions in this draft - these may be added in a future
draft or in the next version of the specification. Contributions are welcome!

• Documentation for the virtio 9P transport device
• Better support for device failover
• Support for stopping and restarting rings without device reset

Notification list:
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
kvm@vger.kernel.org
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
netdev@vger.kernel.org
opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org
dev@dpdk.org
Notes:
Zip files with WD 12122018, accordingly
CSD 12122018 and CSPRD 12122018 can be found here:
https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-docs

The results of this submission may be viewed at:
http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/TCADMIN