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From: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>,
	peter.maydell@linaro.org, kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] pvpanic : update pvpanic spec document
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:53:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1608295996-8464-4-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1608295996-8464-1-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com>

Add pvpanic PCI device support details in docs/specs/pvpanic.txt.

Signed-off-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
---
 docs/specs/pvpanic.txt | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
index a90fbca..5ddc8df 100644
--- a/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/pvpanic.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PVPANIC DEVICE
 ==============
 
-pvpanic device is a simulated ISA device, through which a guest panic
+pvpanic device is a simulated device, through which a guest panic
 event is sent to qemu, and a QMP event is generated. This allows
 management apps (e.g. libvirt) to be notified and respond to the event.
 
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ The management app has the option of waiting for GUEST_PANICKED events,
 and/or polling for guest-panicked RunState, to learn when the pvpanic
 device has fired a panic event.
 
+The pvpanic device can be implemented as an ISA device (using IOPORT) or as a
+PCI device.
+
 ISA Interface
 -------------
 
@@ -24,6 +27,14 @@ bit 1: a guest panic has happened and will be handled by the guest;
        the host should record it or report it, but should not affect
        the execution of the guest.
 
+PCI Interface
+-------------
+
+The PCI interface is similar to the ISA interface except that it uses an MMIO
+address space provided by its BAR0, 2 bytes long. Any machine with a PCI
+device can enable a pvpanic device by adding '-device pvpanic-pci' to the
+command line.
+
 ACPI Interface
 --------------
 
-- 
1.8.3.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-18 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-18 12:53 [PATCH v2] Add support for pvpanic pci device Mihai Carabas
2020-12-18 12:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] hw/misc/pvpanic: split-out generic and bus dependent code Mihai Carabas
2021-01-08 12:14   ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-18 12:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] hw/misc/pvpanic: add PCI interface support Mihai Carabas
2020-12-22 15:30   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-12-22 16:03     ` Mihai Carabas
2021-01-08 12:28   ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-18 12:53 ` Mihai Carabas [this message]
2021-01-08 12:00   ` [PATCH 3/3] pvpanic : update pvpanic spec document Peter Maydell

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