Good point. Let me check.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Liu, Jiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Baolu,
>        How about pcitool interface in Solaris kernel? You can access
> pci configuration space/io space/memory space with pcitool if you have
> permission. Please take a look at
> usr/src/uts/sys/common/sys/pci_tools.h.
>
> Lu Baolu <> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know pciutils (lspci, setpci, pcilib) has been ported to
>> OpenSolaris. pcilib read/write pci configure spaces via direct port
>> access which bypasses the OpenSolaris kernel. I don't think this kind
>> of implementation is good when security and race condition come to
>> mind. Is there any plan to create a kernel path to let libpci utilize
>> (something like /sys/bus/pci and /proc/bus/pci exist in Linux)?
>>
>> I also post this on xen-discuss list since when we try to implement
>> Intel vt-d in xVM, qemu (a device simulator running in user space)
>> will find a way to access pci configure space, which call for such
>> kernel path.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -baolu
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