From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Leendert van Doorn <leendert@paramecium.org>
Cc: "'Kevin O'Connor'" <kevin@koconnor.net>,
"'Shan, Haitao'" <haitao.shan@intel.com>,
"'Liu, Kechao'" <kechao.liu@intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] kvm-userspace: Load PCI option ROMs
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:51:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4961134B.70204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <010201c96e95$72cd4f10$5867ed30$@org>
Leendert van Doorn wrote:
>> With a switch, please. Default behaviour should be to virtualize.
>>
>> One way to implement it is to pass pci devfn -> BAR hints through the
>> firmware interface. This way you can choose which BARs to place where,
>> and where to allow the default placement.
>>
>
> I'm already providing the hints, but you are proposing that the default
> behavior for the BIOS should be to allocate BARs and when given a flag it
> should try to preserve the host BAR mappings. I can do that.
>
It's a general policy -- isolate the guest from the host wherever
possible. In a few cases it isn't possible (time) and it really hurts.
>>> Of course, my goal is to run unmodified BIOS/drivers. You could always
>>> change the drivers.
>>>
>> Not Windows drivers.
>>
>
> Well, at least I have a fighting chance to change the ATI windows drivers
> :-)
>
:-)
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-04 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-29 3:51 [PATCH][v2] kvm-userspace: Load PCI option ROMs Liu, Kechao
2008-12-29 8:28 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-29 9:36 ` Liu, Kechao
2008-12-29 9:49 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-30 1:01 ` Shan, Haitao
2008-12-30 15:51 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-31 2:06 ` Shan, Haitao
2008-12-31 9:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-03 2:29 ` Shan, Haitao
2009-01-04 2:12 ` Shan, Haitao
2009-01-04 3:54 ` Leendert van Doorn
2009-01-04 4:58 ` Shan, Haitao
2009-01-04 10:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-04 17:12 ` Leendert van Doorn
2009-01-04 17:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-04 17:29 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-04 17:54 ` Leendert van Doorn
2009-01-04 19:51 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-01-04 18:03 ` Kevin O'Connor
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