Re: [SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] hw/pci: add hint capabilty for additional bus reservation to pcie-root-port

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On 25/07/2017 0:43, Alexander Bezzubikov wrote:
> 2017-07-24 23:43 GMT+03:00 Michael S. Tsirkin :
> > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 01:15:43AM +0300, Aleksandr Bezzubikov wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Bezzubikov
> > >
> > > hw/pci-bridge/pcie_root_port.c | 5 +++++
> > >   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/hw/pci-bridge/pcie_root_port.c b/hw/pci-bridge/pcie_root_port.c
> > > index b0e49e1..ca92d85 100644
> > > --- a/hw/pci-bridge/pcie_root_port.c
> > > +++ b/hw/pci-bridge/pcie_root_port.c
> > > @@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ static void rp_realize(PCIDevice *d, Error **errp)
> > >       pcie_aer_root_init(d);
> > >       rp_aer_vector_update(d);
> > >
> > > rc = pci_bridge_help_cap_init(d, 0, p->bus_reserve, 0, 0, 0, errp);
> > >
> > > if (rc < 0) {
> > >    goto err;
> > >
> > > }
> > > return;
> > >
> > > err:
> >
> > It looks like this will add the capability unconditionally to all
> > pcie root ports. Two issues with it:
> > you can't add vendor properties to devices where vendor is
> >  not qemu as they might have their own concept of what it does.
> > this will break compatibility with old machine types,
> >  need to disable for these
>
> Actually the original idea was to add it for pcie-root-port excusively
> (for now at least), looks like I've confused a little with files naming.

Right, for the Generic PCIe Root Port and not for all the root ports.
In the future we may want to add it to the PCI-brigde so we can have
nested bridges, but we are not there yet.
> Will add it for v3.

Thanks,
Marcel
> > >