From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 10:27:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160803172736.GA12989@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2460140.yVuTYYqBTX@wuerfel>
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 06:03:54PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> drivers/ntb seems like a reasonable start, while an alternative
> approach that we have discussed in the past would be based on top
> of virtio, so we could use the existing front-end drivers (net, block,
> v9fs, console, ...).
I don't really think either is a good aproach for the lowest level
interface. To be useful the EP driver needs to be able to implement
any (reasonable) thing a PCIe device could do. Both NTB and virtio
can sit on top of that, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-03 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-03 6:03 Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2016-08-03 7:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-04 8:19 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2016-08-03 9:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-03 16:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-03 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-08-03 19:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-04 8:49 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2016-08-03 13:39 ` Joao Pinto
2016-08-04 10:02 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2016-08-04 11:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-18 13:14 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2016-08-25 12:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-29 11:47 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2016-08-17 9:49 ` Mingkai Hu
2016-08-18 12:24 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2016-08-29 15:25 ` Roy Zang
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