Re: [PATCH] Assign the correct pci id range to virtio_pci

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:19:16 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
>>     
>>>> Please copy the virtio maintainer (Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>) on
>>>> virtio guest patches.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Well, for now the issue is whether my understanding of qemu/pci-ids.txt and the
>>> comment in virtio_pci.c that both say that the full 0x1000 - 0x10ff range of PCI
>>> device IDs is donated for virtio_pci devices is correct.
>>>   
>>>       
>> 0x1000-0x10ff is correct.  I don't know where the 0x103f came from.  Rusty?
>>     
>
> We decided to hedge our bets in case we broke the ABI.
>
> AFAICT there's no reason to claim the full range until we need it.  Wake me
> when device #32 is used :)
>   
Would be good to at least include the "experiment range" in case people 
are making third-party virtio modules and want to play around without 
replacing virtio-{pci,*}.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Rusty.
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