On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 11:59 -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > > One thing that's not quite clear to me about pcie-expander-bus: > > according to the code and comment, it has a single slot that > > can accomodate either a pcie-root-port or a dmi-to-pci-bridge. > > > > It seems like that would limit its usefulness quite a lot... > > I would expect at least a pcie-switch-upstream-port to be > > usable as well. Marcel, can you confirm either way? > > You can't plug a pcie-switch-upstream-port directly into a pcie-expander > bus (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1361172 which was > the subject of patch 2) > > You can however plug in a pcie-root-port, and then connect a > pcie-switch-upstream-port into the pcie-root-port. (and then of course > plug a bunch of pcie-switch-downstream-ports into the upstream-port, and > devices into the downstream ports). I see. That's a bit unfortunate, I guess, but at least it's not entirely pointless :) > So does this get ACK with the changes/explanations above? Or do you want > me to re-send it? https://i.imgflip.com/18o30w.jpg -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
