Re: [Qemu-devel] vfio: blacklist loading of unstable roms

2014-02-19 Thread Bandan Das
Alex Williamson writes: > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 13:58 -0500, Bandan Das wrote: >> Alex Williamson writes: >> >> > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 11:12 -0500, Bandan Das wrote: >> >> Certain cards such as the Broadcom BCM57810 have rom quirks >> >> that exhibit unstable system behavior duing device assig

Re: [Qemu-devel] vfio: blacklist loading of unstable roms

2014-02-19 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 13:58 -0500, Bandan Das wrote: > Alex Williamson writes: > > > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 11:12 -0500, Bandan Das wrote: > >> Certain cards such as the Broadcom BCM57810 have rom quirks > >> that exhibit unstable system behavior duing device assignment. In > >> the particular cas

Re: [Qemu-devel] vfio: blacklist loading of unstable roms

2014-02-19 Thread Bandan Das
Alex Williamson writes: > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 11:12 -0500, Bandan Das wrote: >> Certain cards such as the Broadcom BCM57810 have rom quirks >> that exhibit unstable system behavior duing device assignment. In >> the particular case of 57810, rom execution hangs and if a FLR >> follows, the devi

Re: [Qemu-devel] vfio: blacklist loading of unstable roms

2014-02-19 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 11:12 -0500, Bandan Das wrote: > Certain cards such as the Broadcom BCM57810 have rom quirks > that exhibit unstable system behavior duing device assignment. In > the particular case of 57810, rom execution hangs and if a FLR > follows, the device becomes inoperable until a po

[Qemu-devel] vfio: blacklist loading of unstable roms

2014-02-19 Thread Bandan Das
Certain cards such as the Broadcom BCM57810 have rom quirks that exhibit unstable system behavior duing device assignment. In the particular case of 57810, rom execution hangs and if a FLR follows, the device becomes inoperable until a power cycle. This is a simple change to disable rom loading f