On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:35:57PM +0000, Fischer, Anna wrote: > > Perhaps some of this could be hidden with a new bus type for these > > kinds > > of devices? Or a "virtual" bus of pci devices that the original SR-IOV > > device creates that corrispond to the individual virtual PCI devices? > > If that were the case, then it might be a lot easier in the end. > > I think a standard communication channel in Linux for SR-IOV devices > would be a good start, and help to adopt the technology. Something > like the virtual bus you are describing. It means that vendors do > not need to write their own communication channel in the drivers. > It would need to have well defined APIs though, as I guess that > devices will have very different capabilities and hardware > implementations for PFs and VFs, and so they might have very > different events and information to propagate. That would be good to standardize on. Have patches? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
