On 02.06.14 09:49, Eric Auger wrote:
This patch aims at allowing the end-user to specify the device he wants to directly assign to his mach-virt guest in the QEMU command line. The QEMU platform device becomes generic. Current choice is to reuse the "-device" option. For example when assigning Calxeda Midway xgmac device this option is used: -device vfio-platform,vfio_device="fff51000.ethernet",\ compat="calxeda/hb-xgmac",mmap-timeout-ms=1000
I think we're walking into the right direction, but there is one major nit I have. I don't think we should have a -device vfio-platform. I think we should have a -device vfio-xgmac that maybe inherits from an abstrace vfio-platform class.
That way machine code can assemble the device tree according to the device and you can also implement hardware specific hacks or dependencies if you need them - for example the MMIO masking to find an EOI you did earlier.
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