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* [PATCH] docs: record reservations of device IDs under the Xen vendor ID
@ 2013-07-03 17:52 James Bulpin
  2013-07-03 20:15 ` Keir Fraser
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: James Bulpin @ 2013-07-03 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org; +Cc: Ian Campbell

This patch introduces a documentation file to record reservations of 
ranges of PCI device IDs within the Xen vendor ID 0x5853.

Signed-off-by: James Bulpin <james.bulpin@citrix.com>

diff -r cbf91a963462 docs/misc/pci-device-reservations.txt
--- /dev/null   Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/docs/misc/pci-device-reservations.txt     Wed Jul 03 18:34:31 2013 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+PCI vendor ID 0x5853 has been reserved for use by Xen systems in order to
+advertise certain virtual hardware to guest virtual machines. The primary
+use of this is with device ID 0x0001 to advertise the Xen Platform PCI
+device - the presence of this virtual device enables a guest Operating
+System (subject to the availability of suitable drivers) to make use of
+paravirtualisation features such as disk and network devices etc.
+
+Some Xen vendors wish to provide alternative and/or additional guest drivers
+that can bind to virtual devices. This may be done using the Xen PCI vendor
+ID of 0x5853 and Xen-vendor/device specific PCI device IDs. This file
+records reservations made within the device ID range in order to avoid
+multiple Xen vendors using conflicting IDs.
+
+Guidelines
+ 1. A vendor may request a range of device IDs by submitting a patch to
+    this file.
+ 2. Vendor allocations should be in the range 0xc000-0xfffe to reduce the
+    possibility of clashes with community IDs assigned from the bottom up.
+ 3. The vendor is responsible for allocations within the range and should
+    try to record specific device IDs in PCI ID databases such as
+    http://pciids.sourceforge.net and http//www.pcidatabase.com
+
+Reservations
+============
+
+    range     | vendor/product
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
+0x0001        | (Xen Platform PCI device)
+0x0002        | Citrix XenServer (grandfathered allocation for XenServer 6.1)
+0xc000-0xc0ff | Citrix XenServer
+0xc100-0xc1ff | Citrix XenClient
+

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