Re: basic support for (software concept) "pci domains" in the MI pci code

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:06:07AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
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> when constructing a "unique" name the card.  my understanding is
> that xen wants to have a domain concept available for both
> presenting a full topology to the userland as well as helping pci
> passthru, but i do not really understand what the use there is.

AFAIK Xen doesn't need it, it just wants access to the different PCI
busses. It just needs to uniquely identify a device, the autoconf
index of the parent is enough for this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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