Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9 0/3] hw/pcie: Introduce Generic PCI Express Root Port

[Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 14:02 +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> The Generic Root Port behaves the same as the
> Intel's IOH device with id 3420, without having
> Intel specific attributes.
> 
> The device has two purposes:
>  (1) Can be used on both X86 and ARM machines.
>  (2) It will allow us to tweak the behaviour
>     (e.g add vendor-specific PCI capabilities)
>      - something that obviously cannot be done
>        on a known device.
> 
> Patch 1/3: Introduce a base class for Root Ports - most of the code
>            is migrated from IOH3420 implementation.
> Patch 2/3: Derives the IOH3420 from the new base class
> Patch 3/3: Introduces the generic Root Port.
> 
> Tested with Linux and Windows guests only on x86 hosts.

Thanks for your work on this! I will give it a go on aarch64
in a couple of weeks, if nobody beats me to it :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization