[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 1/4] hw/pci: introduce pcie-pci-bridge device

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On 20/09/2017 12:52, Aleksandr Bezzubikov wrote:
> 
> ср, 20 сент. 2017 г. в 10:13, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel at redhat.com 
> <mailto:marcel at redhat.com>>:
> 
>     On 19/09/2017 23:34, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>      > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 02:36:47AM +0300, Aleksandr Bezzubikov wrote:
>      >> Introduce a new PCIExpress-to-PCI Bridge device,
>      >> which is a hot-pluggable PCI Express device and
>      >> supports devices hot-plug with SHPC.
>      >>
>      >> This device is intended to replace the DMI-to-PCI Bridge.
>      >>
>      >> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Bezzubikov <zuban32s at gmail.com
>     <mailto:zuban32s at gmail.com>>
>      >> Reviewed-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel at redhat.com
>     <mailto:marcel at redhat.com>>
>      >
>      > It's possible to crash QEMU by instantiating this device, with;
>      >
>      >    $ qemu-system-ppc64 -machine prep -device pcie-pci-bridge
>      >    qemu-system-ppc64: qemu/memory.c:1533: memory_region_finalize:
>     Assertion `!mr->container' failed.
>      >    Aborted
> 
>     Hi Edurado,
> 
>      >
>      > I didn't investigate the root cause.
>      >
> 
>     Thanks for reporting it!
>     Aleksandr, can you have a look? Maybe we should not compile
>     the device for ppc arch. (x86 and arm is enough)
> 
> 
> I will see what can we do. Is x86 and arm really enough?
> 

Well, I am being selfish, and it works for me lately :).

Seriously speaking, the new generic PCI Express
Port was restricted to x86 and arm for reasons I don't remember.
Since your work has the same scope, the restriction makes sense.

Please grep for CONFIG_PCIE_PORT to convince yourself
and to help coding it.

Thanks,
Marcel

> 
> 
>     Appreciated,
>     Marcel
> 
> -- 
> Aleksandr Bezzubikov