Yang, Sheng wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2008 14:15:15 Han, Weidong wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The initial passthrough/VT-d patches have been in kvm, it's time to >> enhance it, and push them into 2.6.28. >> > > Some supplements: > >> Following is the remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list: >> >> - Multiple devices assignment (WIP) > > Weidong is working on this. > >> - MSI support (WIP) >> - MTRR/PAT support of EPT (WIP) >> - MTRR/PAT support of shadow (WIP) >> - Basic FLR support (WIP) > > Above four are my works. All of them work now. But more job should be > done to polish the patches. And the main part of Function Level Reset > would be picked by linux-pci. > > Another thing is we would send out/update above patches before Sept. > 28, and hope they can picked by 2.6.28 merge window. > > Avi, what's your opinion? Of course we would work hard. :) But what's > the deadline of merge window? > >> (Above tasks are working in process, some patches have been sent out, >> others will be sent out in near future) - architecture independent >> (such as x86, IPF) - Shared Interrupt support > > I still don't know who would do this. It's very important for VT-d > real usable. If nobody interested in it, I would pick it up, but > after Oct. 6 (after National Holiday in China).
I have made some changes to make it arch-indpendent, and patches should be sent out later. Xiantao > >> - Add dummy driver to hide/unbind passthrough device from >> host kernel >> >> If I omit some good features or you have some good proposals, please >> feel free to add them to this list. If you are interest in any >> tasks, please reply the mail directly and let other guys to know >> your progress. Appreciate any effort from you! >> >> >> Randy (Weidong) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
