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: 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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