Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V12 5/9] Revert "pci: don't export an internal function"

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-06-13 14:40, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On 13/06/12 13:00, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-06-13 13:22, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> On 2012-06-12 17:15, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:05:19PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
>>>>>> This reverts commit 94a09e2c846374a96719cda2b4e1312d8c4b08a7.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This function is used by a later patch to parse the BDF of the device to
>>>>>> passthrough.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD<anthony.perard@citrix.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> You probably want to parse the host address?  You don't want to copy the
>>>>> bugs in pci_parse_devaddr - write your own that has sane semantics
>>>>> for host. E.g. you need to support ARI etc.
>>>>
>>>> We should really consolidate over one parser for Xen, KVM device
>>>> assignment and VFIO. It looks like they all have very similar requirements.
>>>>
>>>> For those how didn't follow the discussion, see patches 10-13 in
>>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/153728.
>>>
>>> I agree, actually it looks like patch 10 and 11 would be enough.
>>>
>>> Maybe you could extract them and send them out separately?
>>
>> They are still under discussion and waiting for some QOM refactorings to
>> be merged.
>>
>> Will you be able to use an address parser via some device property?
> 
> Yes. Actually, the address is already a device property.
> 

Great. Then we should try to come up with a common pci-host-devaddr
property everyone can use.

Jan

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