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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH] gpu:drm:i915:intel_detect_pch: back to check devfn instead of check class type
On 2014/6/25 14:48, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 22/06/2014 10:25, Chen, Tiejun ha scritto:In qemu-upstream, as you commented we can't create this as a ISA class type explicitly.Note I didn't say that QEMU doesn't like having two ISA bridges. I commented that the firmware will see two ISA bridges and will try to initialize both of them. It currently doesn't just because it only knows of two southbridge PCI IDs, and both of them are old or relatively old (PIIX3/4 and ICH9). But what would happen if you did graphics passthrough on a machine with an ICH9 southbridge? Your code will create the PIIX4 ISA bridge, and will create an ICH9 southbridge just to please the i915 driver. The BIOS will recognize the ICH9's vendor/device ids and try to initialize it. It will write to the configuration space to set up PCI PIRQ[A-H] routing, for example, which makes no sense since your ICH9 is just a dummy device. Thanks for your detailed explanation. Second problem. Your IGD passthrough code currently works with QEMU's PIIX4-based machine. But what happens if you try to extend it, so that Yes, current xen machine, xenpv, is based on pii4, and also I don't known if we will plan to migrate to q35 or others. So its hard to further say more now. it works with QEMU's ICH9-based machine? That's a more modern machine that has a PCIe chipset and hence has its ISA bridge at 00:1f.0. Now But even in this case, could we set the real vendor/device ids for that ISA bridge at 00:1f.0? If not, what's broken? you have a conflict. In other words, if you want IGD passthrough in QEMU, you need a solution that is future-proof.So we compromise by faking this ISA bridge without ISA class type setting (as I recall you already said this way is slightly better).It is only slightly better, but the right solution is to fix the driver. There is absolutely zero reason why a graphics driver should know about the vendor/device ids of the PCH. This means we have to fix this both on Linux and Windows but I'm not sure if this is feasible to us. The right way could be to make QEMU add a vendor-specific capability to the video device. The driver can probe for that capability before Do you mean we can pick two unused offsets in the configuration space of the video device as a vendor-specific capability to hold the vendor/device ids of the PCH? looking at the PCI bus. QEMU can add the capability to the list, it is easy because all accesses to the video device's configuration space trap to QEMU. Then you do not need to add fake devices to the machine. In fact, it would be nice if Intel added such a capability on the next generation of integrated graphics, too. On real hardware, ACPI or some Maybe, but even this would be implemented, shouldn't we need to be compatible with those old generations? Thanks Tiejun other kind of firmware can probe the PCH at 00:1f.0 and initialize that vendor-specific capability. QEMU would just forward the value from the host, so that virtualized guests never depend on the PCH at 00:1f.0. PaoloMaybe we will figure better way in the future. But anyway, this is always registered as 00:15.0, right? So I think the i915 driver can go back to probe the devfn like the native environment. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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