From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NeXbW-0004GZ-Ex for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:40:58 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48112 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NeXbW-0004GK-3u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:40:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NeXbU-0003RS-Ho for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:40:57 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:27802) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NeXbU-0003RE-2B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:40:56 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:37:41 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] pci: initialize header type register. Message-ID: <20100208173741.GB10716@redhat.com> References: <20100208064147.GD22624@valinux.co.jp> <20100208101753.GA14662@redhat.com> <4B6FF203.6010304@redhat.com> <20100208162753.GA28230@redhat.com> <4B7048E9.6000706@redhat.com> <20100208173204.GA10716@redhat.com> <4B704BE5.9010205@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B704BE5.9010205@redhat.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Blue Swirl , Isaku Yamahata , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 06:37:41PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 02/08/10 18:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 06:24:57PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> On 02/08/10 17:27, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:14:11PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>>>> On 02/08/10 11:17, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:41:47PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote: >>>>>>> initialize header type register in pci generic code. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cc: Blue Swirl >>>>>>> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata >>>>>> >>>>>> No objections here, I am assuming this will be followed >>>>>> by patches removing header type init from bridges? >>>>>> From qdev perspective, it is probably cleaner to make >>>>>> multifunction bit a separate qdev property though, right? >>>>> >>>>> From a qdev perspective it would make *alot* of sense to move a bunch of >>>>> pci config stuff (including, but not limited to header type) into >>>>> PCIDeviceInfo. >>>>> >>>>> cheers, >>>>> Gerd >>>> >>>> Actually - won't this make it possible to create broken configurations >>>> by tweaking properties from command-line? >>> >>> Not as property, as struct element in PCIDeviceInfo. i.e. >>> >>> static PCIDeviceInfo e1000_info = { >>> [ stuff which is here right now ] >>> .vendor_id = PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, >>> .device_id = E1000_DEVID, >>> .class = PCI_CLASS_NETWORK_ETHERNET, >>> [ probably more stuff which makes sense ] >>> } >>> >>> Then setup this in generic pci code instead of having each driver doing >>> a bunch of pci_config_set_*() calls. >>> >>> cheers, >>> Gerd >> >> We still end up with class, vendor etc duplicated in 2 places. > > No. The info should be *only* in PCIDeviceInfo then. That would put a lot of code in pci config cycle path. A single array mirroring the whole config space is much cleaner. >> Why do >> we want stuff like vendor id in PCIDeviceInfo at all? Why can't >> everyone just use pci_config_set/get calls? > > You can do nice stuff like printing vendor/device IDs in the '-device ?' > list then. That should use pci functions as well. > cheers, > Gerd