Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] hw/virtio: Add PCIe capability to virtio devices

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

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 <marcel@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > 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