Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1455926

Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint
Date 2016-08-03 20:00 +0200
Message-ID <s28Ct-5J5-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <s1Xxo-6Z4-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <s21rk-1e7-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <s273H-4KR-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 06:03:54PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> drivers/ntb seems like a reasonable start, while an alternative
> approach that we have discussed in the past would be based on top
> of virtio, so we could use the existing front-end drivers (net, block,
> v9fs, console, ...).

I don't really think either is a good aproach for the lowest level
interface.  To be useful the EP driver needs to be able to implement
any (reasonable) thing a PCIe device could do.  Both NTB and virtio
can sit on top of that, though.

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> - 2016-08-03 08:10 +0200
  Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-03 10:00 +0200
    Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> - 2016-08-04 10:30 +0200
  Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-08-03 12:20 +0200
    Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-03 18:20 +0200
      Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-08-03 20:00 +0200
        Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-03 21:50 +0200
    Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> - 2016-08-04 11:20 +0200
  Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-08-03 16:10 +0200
    Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> - 2016-08-04 12:10 +0200
      Re: Support for configurable PCIe endpoint Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-04 13:20 +0200

csiph-web