> From: Paul Durrant [mailto:paul.durr...@citrix.com] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 4:47 PM > > > > > > A whole lot of this would be easier to reason about if/when we get a > > > basic root port implementation in Xen, which is necessary for HVMLite, > > > and which will make the interaction with qemu rather more clean. It is > > > probably worth coordinating work in this area. > > > > Would it make Xen too complex? Qemu also has its own root port > > implementation, and then you need some tricks within Qemu to not > > use its own root port but instead registering to Xen root port. Why is > > such movement more clean? > > > > Upstream QEMU already registers PCI BDFs with Xen, and Xen already handles > cf8 and cfc > accesses (to turn them into single config space read/write ioreqs). So, it > really isn't much > of a leap to put the root port implementation in Xen. > > Paul >
Thanks for your information. I didn't realize that fact. Curious is there anyone already working on a basic root port support in Xen? If yes, what's the current progress? Thanks Kevin _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
