On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > Sorry about dragging mainframes into this, but this will only work for > homogenous device coupling, not for heterogenous. Consider my vfio-pci > + virtio-net-ccw example again: The guest cannot find out that the two > belong together by checking some group ID, it has to either use the MAC > or some needs-to-be-architectured property. > > Alternatively, we could propose that mechanism as pci-only, which means > we can rely on mechanisms that won't necessarily work on non-pci > transports. (FWIW, I don't see a use case for using vfio-ccw to pass > through a network card anytime in the near future, due to the nature of > network cards currently in use on s390.)
That's what it boils down to, yes. If there's need to have this for non-pci devices, then we should put it in config space. Cornelia, what do you think? -- MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
