Re: Mailboxes userspace application communicating with a PCI driver

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Should all PCI devices support mailboxes ?

No, there's no requirement for a PCI device to support mailboxes.  The
spec only defines (via config space) a standard way to find out where
device registers live in the address space.  It doesn't say anything
about what sort of registers a device must implement.

> Is there some example of an opensource userspace application which
> communicates with a PCI driver by mailboxes?  (preferably a network
> device)

I don't know the answer to this one, sorry.

Bjorn
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