Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device [V3]

[Paul Durrant]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell
> Sent: 03 July 2013 09:29
> To: Stefano Stabellini
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini; Paul Durrant; address@hidden; Anthony Liguori;
> address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Citrix PV Bus device [V3]
> 
> On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 19:05 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > - the new device should have configurable vendor and device ids, so that
> > > host admins can select which vendor's PV drivers are going to be
> > > automatically installed on all your Windows guests. This should probably
> > > be a VM config option (pvdevice=<gplpv|citrix|suse|oracle|etc>, libxl
> would
> > > then pass a vendor and device id pair to QEMU via command line.
> > > We can come up with a config syntax that would support both numeric
> > > pairs as well as simple labels.
> >
> > Anthony,
> > would you be happy to have a PCI device in QEMU with configurable
> vendor
> > and device IDs?
> 
> IIRC there is also a revision field in the PCI config space. Might as
> well make that configurable too.
> 

Already did that  :-)

> There are also sub-vendor and sub-device IDs but I don't think they are
> so useful for us (AFAIK they are intended to allow the board
> manufacturer to "subclass" the IDs baked into the ASIC).
> 

I'm always hazy about what those mean. I thought the idea was that a vendor may 
collect together many devices, potentially from different vendors, into a 
single chip/board and they should use common subsystem vendor/device info for 
all those devices to indicate that they were all part of that larger unit - but 
maybe I'm completely wrong.

  Paul