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Re: basic support for (software concept) "pci domains" in the MI pci code
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:06:07AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>> 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.
Manuel: How do you enlist all PCI devices in userland to be used in
xen python code ?
Christoph
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