On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 13:34 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On reflection, I think this will work. We have a Xen pci passthrough > driver which gets told about the passed-through devices via xenbus, > and > does the appropriate setup. At first glance, there doesn't seem to be > any problem with that code just explicitly instantiate the devices at > the PCI level in the same way pci_scan_device does (ie, > alloc_pci_device, initalize the dev struct, pci_setup_device). > > Is that what you mean? > > IanC has looked at that code more closely, so perhaps he can confirm > that this will work on our side. > Yes, we do that in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c (and somewhere in arch/sparc too). I'll merge those 2 implementations one of these days and move them to drivers/of. I think Willy was actually suggesting that you start using our OF/device-tree stuff though which is a slightly more invasive deal but might end up useful for other things in the long run :-) Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
