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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] hw/virtio: Add PCIe capability to virtio de
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Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] hw/virtio: Add PCIe capability to virtio devices |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:13:37 +0200 |
On Mo, 2015-10-12 at 18:42 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 06:17:54PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > The virtio devices are converted to PCI-Express
> > if they are plugged into a PCI-Express bus and
> > the 'modern' protocol is enabled.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >
> > This is an RFC because all it does it adds the PCIe capability and nothing
> > more.
>
> Express capability is easy.
> But if you go over express space you will see that a bunch of
> other capabilities are required, such as PM capability etc.
> These might need more work.
Also what about the legacy io bar? I guess we'd better avoid that for
express devices.
Maybe it makes sense to add virtio-*-pcie devices (virtio-1.0 only, with
pcie caps)?
cheers,
Gerd