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

[Alexander Schulz - XCP-ng Project Member <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)
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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