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Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:39:12 +1030 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>, Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>, Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>, Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@...il.com>, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PULL] virtio On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:42:23 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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