[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 05/18] virtio: add version 1.0 structs and #defines
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Jun 29 15:35:59 CEST 2015
Hi,
> > +typedef struct virtio_pci_common_cfg {
> > + /* About the whole device. */
> > + u32 device_feature_select; /* read-write */
>
> If I understand these structs correctly, they don't reside in memory,
> but instead represent an interface layout and are used with offsetof()
> and sizeof().
Correct.
> If so, I think they should be marked with PACKED.
They are carefully ordered and padded so that adding PACKED should not
change anything. The linux kernel has them without PACKED too.
> BTW, it would be nice (but certainly not required) to move these types
> of interface definitions to a new virtio header in the std/ directory.
Can do that.
cheers,
Gerd
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