Issue with the emulated PCI bridge implementation

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Thu Jan 2 19:26:56 EST 2014


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 04:52:41PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Here is an implementation of this idea, tested to work with an e1000e
> card, with the driver modified to do a few read/write to the I/O
> region. What do you think about it?

This seems reasonable, the only down side is that a stray read to an
unused portion of the Linux IO mapping will lock the machine instead
of getting a page fault - however I don't see that as a blocker.

Regards,
Jason



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