Re: basic support for (software concept) "pci domains" in the MI pci code

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:39:23PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:06:07AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> >> when constructing a "unique" name the card.  my understanding is
> >> that xen wants to have a domain concept available for both
> >> presenting a full topology to the userland as well as helping pci
> >> passthru, but i do not really understand what the use there is.
> > 
> > AFAIK Xen doesn't need it, it just wants access to the different PCI
> > busses. It just needs to uniquely identify a device, the autoconf
> > index of the parent is enough for this.
> 
> Manuel: How do you enlist all PCI devices in userland to be used in
> xen python code ?

something like:
for i in /dev/pci*; do
    pcictl $i list
done

This is basically what the patch in xentools3 does for PCI access.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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