Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] add pci-serial device.

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 09/26/12 01:43, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>>   Hi,
>>
>> Two patches, first split up serial.c a bit,
>> then actually add the pci-based serial device.
> 
> The series looks good to me.  A couple requests:
> 
> 1) Could you add a spec describing this new PCI device?  Doesn't need to
>    be more than a couple paragraphs since the device is super simple.

Well, it is pretty strait forward:  A single IO bar, 8 bytes in size,
where the 16550 uart is mapped to:

[kraxel@fedora ~]$ lspci -vse
00:0e.0 Serial controller: Red Hat, Inc. Device 0002 (rev 01) (prog-if
00 [8250])
	Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device 1100
	Physical Slot: 14
	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 11
	I/O ports at c130 [size=8]
	Kernel driver in use: serial

But I can surely add a comment about it.

> 2) Could you make the inf file an separate patch and either include
>    documentation in the commit message on how to use it with Windows or
>    just add a comment to the inf file?

I think a comment is better, easier to find than a commit message.  Will do.

> This is a new PCI space for QEMU too.  

It isn't new, I just followed what the pci bridge is doing (which has
1b36:0001).

> Is this a driver that is "owned"
> by QEMU and Red Hat is donating the PCI id or is this a driver that RH
> controls that we're implementing?

I consider it being owned by qemu.

cheers,
  Gerd