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From: Yosuke Iwamatsu <y-iwamatsu@ab.jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: IOMMU: improve the FLR logic and move
	it	fromhypervisor to Control Panel?
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:45:08 +0900
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Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> Thanks for the comments.
> qemu-dm is Device Model. I think Control Panel means Xend/libxc (and other necessary scripts). 
> I think pciback of Dom0 may be not the best place. Beside the drawback you mentioned, for the "Secondary Bus Reset", pciback doesn't own the bridge. 
> In Control Panel, Python script can access PCI config space easily via the sys filesystem.

I vaguely feel uneasy about allowing python scripts to write in PCI
config space directly. Is it a common way?

-- Yosuke