Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PULL] virtio | Date | Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:39:12 +1030 |
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:42:23 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 02:33:33PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > > A proper solution would be for example a configuration in the PIO config > > space which points to the MMIO BAR to use instead. > > I think it makes sense to put the configuration in PCI > configuration space, using vendor-specific capability. > This way we can reuse existing functionality for scanning > capability lists.
Patch welcome; first one to implement it becomes virtio PCI maintainer! I'll keep maintaining the spec, since it covers much more than the PCI mechanics, but everything I know about PCI I learn from these discussions.
Meanwhile, I've dropped this patch; mea culpa.
> > Unless Michael pointed this patch out, it would have broken (at least) > > the kvm tool in a non obvious way which would require a rather long > > session of 'git bisect' to figure out whats wrong.
I assumed not, until QEMU provided the second BAR it would simply fall back. Or am I completely misunderstanding?
Thanks, Rusty.
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