Re: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

[Greg KH]

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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