On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 07:04:29AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 12:44 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 07:43:30PM +0900, eiichiro.oiwa.nm@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Because legacy VGA is only one device on x86 System, I think qemu has to emulate a bridge > > > for legacy VGA. The VGA Enable bit on its bridge control register has to set to 1. The VGA > > > Enable bit describes in Table 3-10 Bridge Control register. When there are two VGA cards > > > on the same system, I think its system needs two bridges for each device. These bridges > > > need bridge control registers. One VGA Enable bit on its bridge for legacy VGA has to set > > > to 1. Another VGA Enable bit for second VGA has to set to 0. > > > > > > > > > >On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:16 PM, <eiichiro.oiwa.nm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I think qemu is breaking "PCI-to-PCI Bridge Architecture Specification Revison 1.2 > > > >> June 9, 2003 Chapter 12. VGA Support". > > > > > > > >And what exactly do you think qemu is doing wrong? Chapter 12 is ten > > > >pages long. Is there something there that prohibits two VGA devices > > > >on the same bus? I'm not a qemu developer, but if I were, I would > > > >need a better hint about what is wrong before I could fix it. > > > > > > > >Again, sorry if you said this already and I missed it. > > > > > > > >>>[+cc Michael, Jesse, David, qemu-devel] > > > >>> > > > >>>On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:58 PM, <eiichiro.oiwa.nm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>>> I suggest you should not break the PCI specification, as a developer of proprietary > > > >>>> hypervisor, but I think your patch is no problem. > > > >>>> Your PCI structure is specialized structure for your virtual machine. > > > >>>> Maybe, your virtual machine will be causing another problem on Linux or other kernels > > > >>>> because of breaking the PCI specification. > > > >>> > > > >>>I assume you think qemu is breaking the PCI spec. What exactly do you > > > >>>think is broken? Please give specific references to the spec. This > > > >>>conversation is pretty fragmented, and I came in late, so I apologize > > > >>>if I missed this. > > > >>> > > > >>>Bjorn > > > >>> > > > > > > > > None of the bridges included in QEMU implements VGA support. > > The spec explicitly says its optional, so that's ok. > > > > As a result, you need to put device which has to work in > > VGA mode on the root bus, any device behind a bridge > > won't work in VGA mode (but might work in non VGA mode). > > The ioh3420 root ports support VGA, so a q35 model is an option for > multiple VGA devices. Hmm, you are right, I forgot you implemented this in March. In fact, I see that you updated bridges to support VGA so if user wants to put both devices behind bridges, that's also possible. -- MST -- 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
