Hi, > I really dislike negotiation being re-invented for each device. Do > we > need these tricks? Can we just do fw cfg with standard discovery? > This ties in with my proposal to generalize smi features to > generic ones.
Device properties should be part of the device. We should have done this with the smi too. A more standard way to handle this would be to add a vendor-specific pci capability and place the register there. Not sure we have room for that in the pci config space though. cheers, Gerd