10/05/2017 17:46, Gaetan Rivet: > The PCI and virtual bus are planned to be moved to the generic > drivers/bus directory in v17.08. For this change to be possible, the EAL > must be made completely independent. > > The rte_devargs structure currently holds device representation internal > to those two busses. It must be made generic before this work can be > completed. > > Instead of using either a driver name for a vdev or a PCI address for a > PCI device, a devargs structure will have to be able to describe any > possible device on all busses, without introducing dependencies on > any bus-specific device representation. This will break the ABI for this > structure. > > Additionally, an evolution will occur regarding the device parsing > from the command-line. A user must be able to set which bus will handle > which device, and this setting is integral to the definition of a > device. > > The format has not yet been formally defined, but a proposition will > follow soon for a new command line parameter format for all devices. > > Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.ri...@6wind.com> > --- > +* devargs: An ABI change is planned for 17.08 for the structure > ``rte_devargs``. > + The current version is dependent on bus-specific device identifier, which > will > + be made generic and abstracted, in order to make the EAL bus-agnostic. > + > + Accompanying this evolution, device command line parameters will thus > support > + explicit bus definition in a device declaration.
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> Applied, thanks
