Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/8] AMD XGBE KVM platform passthrough

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 February 2016 at 13:51, Eric Auger <address@hidden> wrote:
> This series allows to set up AMD XGBE passthrough. This was tested on AMD
> Seattle.
>
> The first upstreamed device supporting KVM platform passthrough was the
> Calxeda Midway XGMAC. Compared to this latter, the XGBE XGMAC exposes a
> much more complex device tree node.
>
> - First There are 2 device tree node formats:
> one where XGBE and PHY are described in separate nodes and another one
> that combines both description in a single node (only supported by 4.2
> onwards kernels). Only the combined description is supported for passthrough,
> meaning the host must be >= 4.2 and must feature a device tree with a combined
> description. The guest will also be exposed with a combined description,
> meaning only >= 4.2 guest are supported. It is not planned to support
> separate node representation since assignment of the PHY is less
> straigtforward.
>
> - the XGMAC/PHY node depends on 2 clock nodes (DMA and PTP).
> The code checks those clocks are fixed to make sure they cannot be
> switched off at some point after the native driver gets unbound.
>
> - there are many property values to populate on guest side. Most of them
> cannot be hardcoded. That series implements host device tree blob extraction
> from the host /proc/device-tree (inspired from dtc implementation)
> and retrieve host property values to populate guest dtb.
>
> - the case where the host uses ACPI is not yet covered since there is
>   no usable ACPI description for this HW yet.
>
> The patches can be found at
> https://git.linaro.org/people/eric.auger/qemu.git/shortlog/refs/heads/v2.5.0-xgbe-v6
>
> Previous versions can be found at
> https://git.linaro.org/people/eric.auger/qemu.git/shortlog/refs/heads/v2.5.0-xgbe-v<n>

I think you have review on everything in this series now, but I'm assuming
this is going to go via the vfio tree (or at any rate not via target-arm).
Let me know if that's wrong.

thanks
-- PMM