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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support
    On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:35:57PM +0000, Fischer, Anna wrote:
    > > Perhaps some of this could be hidden with a new bus type for these
    > > kinds
    > > of devices? Or a "virtual" bus of pci devices that the original SR-IOV
    > > device creates that corrispond to the individual virtual PCI devices?
    > > If that were the case, then it might be a lot easier in the end.
    >
    > I think a standard communication channel in Linux for SR-IOV devices
    > would be a good start, and help to adopt the technology. Something
    > like the virtual bus you are describing. It means that vendors do
    > not need to write their own communication channel in the drivers.
    > It would need to have well defined APIs though, as I guess that
    > devices will have very different capabilities and hardware
    > implementations for PFs and VFs, and so they might have very
    > different events and information to propagate.

    That would be good to standardize on. Have patches?

    thanks,

    greg k-h


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