Re: [Xen-devel] [v5][PATCH 1/5] xen, gfx passthrough: basic graphics passthrough support

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 25/06/2014 04:17, Tiejun Chen ha scritto:
> +static int get_vgabios(unsigned char *buf, XenHostPCIDevice *dev)
> +{
> +    char rom_file[64];
> +    FILE *fp;
> +    uint8_t val;
> +    struct stat st;
> +    uint16_t magic = 0;
> +    int ret = 0;
> +
> +    snprintf(rom_file, sizeof(rom_file),
> +             "/sys/bus/pci/devices/%04x:%02x:%02x.%d/rom",
> +             dev->domain, dev->bus, dev->dev,
> +             dev->func);
> +
> +    if (stat(rom_file, &st)) {
> +        return -ENODEV;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (access(rom_file, F_OK)) {
> +        XEN_PT_ERR(NULL, "pci-assign: Insufficient privileges for %s",
> +                    rom_file);
> +        return -ENODEV;
> +    }
These two checks (stat and access) are useless.

> +    /* Write "1" to the ROM file to enable it */
> +    fp = fopen(rom_file, "r+");
> +    if (fp == NULL) {
> +        return -EACCES;
> +    }
> +    val = 1;
> +    if (fwrite(&val, 1, 1, fp) != 1) {
> +        XEN_PT_LOG("%s\n", "Failed to enable pci-sysfs rom file");
> +        ret = -EIO;
> +        goto close_rom;
> +    }
> +    fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET);
> +
> +    /*
> +     * Check if it a real bios extension.
> +     * The magic number is 0xAA55.
> +     */
> +    if (!fread(&magic, sizeof(magic), 1, fp)) {
> +        XEN_PT_ERR(NULL, "VGA: can't get magic.\n");
> +        ret = -ENODEV;
> +        goto close_rom;
> +    }
> +    if (magic != 0xAA55) {
> +        XEN_PT_ERR(NULL, "VGA: wrong magic %x.\n", magic);
> +        ret = -ENODEV;
> +        goto close_rom;
> +    }
> +    fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET);
> +
> +    if (!fread(buf, 1, st.st_size, fp)) {
> +        XEN_PT_ERR(NULL, "VGA: pci-assign: Cannot read from host %s", 
> rom_file);
> +        XEN_PT_LOG(NULL, "VGA: Device option ROM contents are probably invalid 
> "
> +                     "(check dmesg).\nSkip option ROM probe with rombar=0, "
> +                     "or load from file with romfile=\n");
> +    }
> +
Why is this graphics passthrough specific?  Should QEMU's Xen PCI 
passthrough read ROM BAR contents from network cards too, for example?
Paolo

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