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Re: [Xen-devel] [v5][PATCH 0/5] xen: add Intel IGD passthrough support



On 2014/6/25 16:48, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:39:43AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Il 25/06/2014 10:31, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
It might be possible to move the Q35 bridge elsewhere.
seabios doesn't care where the host bridge is.
ACPI tables in QEMU can be adjusted.

But why?  It's always in 00:1f.0 on real hardware.  If the i915 driver wants
to run under virtual machines, it should stop acting as if it knows what the
whole machine looks like.

Paolo

If guest driver can be fixed that seems ideal.
I don't know how it works but presumably you guys do?

Paolo prefer we need to fix this in the driver like:

"
>>> 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?
>
> Yes, either that or add a new capability (which lets you choose the
> offsets more freely).
>
> If the IGD driver needs config space fields of the MCH, those fields
> could also be mirrored in the new capability.  QEMU would forward them
> automatically.
>
> It could even be a new BAR, which gives even more freedom to allocate
> the fields.
"

Thanks
Tiejun

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