Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] hw/nvme: add mi device

[Padmakar Kalghatgi]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:58:42AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 07:25:45PM +0530, Padmakar Kalghatgi wrote:
> > The following commands are tested with nvme-cli by hooking
> > to the cid of the vsock as shown above and use the socket
> > send/recieve commands to issue the commands and get the response.
>
> Why sockets? Shouldn't mi targets use smbus for that?
vsock mimcs the sideband communication, hence we used it.
However, we are working on the smbus/i2c implementation 
for nvme-mi in qemu/nvme-cli, we will send the patch in few days.