Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/4] pcie: Add some SR/IOV API documentation in docs/pcie_sriov.txt

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 01:54:48PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56:39AM +0200, Knut Omang wrote:
> > But feel free to just skip this patch, the most important is to get the
> > generic SR/IOV code in there for others to use.
> 
> That's my question. Is it for others to use or are you going to use it
> youself?
> 
> If you plan to e.g. complete igb to the point where Linux can use it,
> then I'll merge this.
> BTW for igb it might be easier to copy out e1000 code, at least that's what
> linux guest drivers did.
> 
> Alternatively, if someone  on list is interested in using this,
> please review and ack.

An emulated SR-IOV-capable network card would be useful for debugging
OpenStack's SR-IOV drivers.

Rich.

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