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Re: RFC: PCI devices passthrough on Arm design proposal
- To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
- From: Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:44:15 +0000
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- Thread-topic: RFC: PCI devices passthrough on Arm design proposal
> On 17 Jul 2020, at 15:29, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 17/07/2020 14:22, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
>>>> # Emulated PCI device tree node in libxl:
>>>>
>>>> Libxl is creating a virtual PCI device tree node in the device tree
>>>> to enable the guest OS to discover the virtual PCI during guest
>>>> boot. We introduced the new config option [vpci="pci_ecam"] for
>>>> guests. When this config option is enabled in a guest configuration,
>>>> a PCI device tree node will be created in the guest device tree.
>>>>
>>>> A new area has been reserved in the arm guest physical map at which
>>>> the VPCI bus is declared in the device tree (reg and ranges
>>>> parameters of the node). A trap handler for the PCI ECAM access from
>>>> guest has been registered at the defined address and redirects
>>>> requests to the VPCI driver in Xen.
>>>
>>> Can't you deduce the requirement of such DT node based on the presence
>>> of a 'pci=' option in the same config file?
>>>
>>> Also I wouldn't discard that in the future you might want to use
>>> different emulators for different devices, so it might be helpful to
>>> introduce something like:
>>>
>>> pci = [ '08:00.0,backend=vpci', '09:00.0,backend=xenpt',
>>> '0a:00.0,backend=qemu', ... ]
>
> I like this idea :).
>
>>>
>>> For the time being Arm will require backend=vpci for all the passed
>>> through devices, but I wouldn't rule out this changing in the future.
>> We need it for the case where no device is declared in the config file and
>> the user
>> wants to add devices using xl later. In this case we must have the DT node
>> for it
>> to work.
>
> Are you suggesting that you plan to implement PCI hotplug?
No this is not in the current plan but we should not prevent this to be
supported some day :-)
Bertrand
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Julien Grall
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