Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V3 2/2] Xen/PCIback: Implement PCI flr/slot/bus reset with 'reset' SysFS attribute

Pasi Kärkkäinen
2018-10-03T15:51:10Z

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:05:26AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 02:09:53PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > On 9/18/18 5:32 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sep 18, 2018, at 8:15 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 02:06:02PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > >>> What about the toolstack changes? Have they been accepted? I vaguely
> > >>> recall there was a discussion about those changes but don't remember how
> > >>> it ended.
> > >>>
> > >> I don't think toolstack/libxl patch has been applied yet either.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> "[PATCH V1 0/1] Xen/Tools: PCI reset using 'reset' SysFS attribute":
> > >> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-12/msg00664.html
> > >>
> > >> "[PATCH V1 1/1] Xen/libxl: Perform PCI reset using 'reset' SysFS attribute":
> > >> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-12/msg00663.html
> >
> >
> > Will this patch work for *BSD? Roger?
>
> At least FreeBSD don't support pci-passthrough, so none of this works
> ATM. There's no sysfs on BSD, so much of what's in libxl_pci.c will
> have to be moved to libxl_linux.c when BSD support is added.
>

Ok. That sounds like it's OK for the initial pci 'reset' implementation in xl/libxl to be linux-only..

Thanks,

-- Pasi

> Thanks, Roger.