Re: [win-pv-devel] Register new pci-device-reservation for XCP-ng Project

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: win-pv-devel [mailto:win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Alexander Schulz - XCP-ng Project Member
> Sent: 15 October 2018 16:54
> To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] Register new pci-device-reservation for XCP-ng
> Project
> 
> Hello Paul Durrant,
> 
> cool :-)
> 
> So we'll use the range 0xc200-0xc2ff. I try to prepare a pull request
> (I'm still relatively new to git)
> 

Alexander,

  Have a read of 
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Project_Patches if you haven't 
done so already. You only need a 1 line patch so it should hopefully be pretty 
easy :-)

  Cheers,

    Paul

> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Alexander Schulz
> XCP-ng Project Member
> 
> Maintainer of: XCP-ng Center and XCP-ng PV-Tools
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Am 15.10.2018 um 10:53 schrieb Paul Durrant:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: win-pv-devel [mailto:win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On
> >> Behalf Of Alexander Schulz - XCP-ng Project Member
> >> Sent: 14 October 2018 02:14
> >> To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Cc: contact@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [win-pv-devel] Register new pci-device-reservation for XCP-ng
> >> Project
> >>
> >> Hello PV-Tools Developer!
> >>
> >> As stated here
> >> https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/xen-pci-device-
> >> reservations.7.html
> >> a vendor can request the reservation of a PCI-Device range for his own
> >> version of the PV-Tools.
> >>
> >> We at XCP-ng plan to build our own PV-Tools. We also are willing to
> >> contribute to the whole community and help to improve the PV-Tools with
> >> the best effort our little team can provide.
> >>
> > Hi,
> >
> >    That's good news. Great to have you on board.
> >
> >> As I can read in the reservations table there was very little use of it
> >> in the last years ;-)
> >>
> >> We wanted to use the range 0x0003 for "XCP-ng". Is there any reason not
> >> to do so?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help and sugestions!
> >    I think it would probably be better if you took a range. It's not in
> writing but I think other things have played with those low numbered
> device ids in the past so probably best to avoid them. Would you be ok
> with the next range of 0x100 above XenClient, i.e. 0xc200-0xc2ff? If so,
> then please upstream a patch to the source document (xen.git:docs/man/xen-
> pci-device-reservations.pod.7) adding the appropriate line and once it's
> committed you are good to go.
> >
> >    Cheers,
> >
> >      Paul
> >
> >> --
> >>
> >> Alexander Schulz
> >> XCP-ng Project Member
> >>
> >> Maintainer of: XCP-ng Center and XCP-ng PV-Tools
> >>
> >>
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> >> Github: https://github.com/xcp-ng
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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