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From: Dominic Eschweiler <eschweiler@fias.uni-frankfurt.de>
Subject: Re: UIO: missing resource mapping
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:42:51 +0200
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Am Freitag, den 13.07.2012, 16:22 +0300 schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin:
> Could you give an example of the problem? How do you bind
> both UIO and another driver to the same device?=20

Sorry, I'm looking on it from the user-space perspective. Maybe I'm
wrong, but I can give you an example :

lspci -v
=2E..
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
(rev 02)
	Subsystem: Apple Inc. AirPort Extreme
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	Memory at b0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=3D78 <?>
	Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=3D1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 85-f2-6d-ff-ff-42-68-a8
	Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
	Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
=2E..

This Device has one 64 Bit Bar. When I look at the related sysfs
entry ...


ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0
=2E..
--w------- 1 root root 4.0K Jul 13 16:35 reset
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Jul 12 21:43 resource
-rw------- 1 root root  16K Jul 13 16:35 resource0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jul 12 23:41 subsystem
-> ../../../../bus/pci
=2E..

=2E.. I can see that it should be possible to map resource0 and directl=
y
write into a BAR which is already managed by a kernel drivers.=20

Moving this functionality to UIO would only generate those resource
files, if the device is handled by UIO and therefore intended to be
managed from the user-space.=20

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Gru=C3=9F
  Dominic