[dpdk-dev] [RFC] PCI config access for drivers

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Wed Aug 27 12:37:00 CEST 2014


Hi Stephen,

> Some drivers need ability to access PCI config (for example for power management). This
> adds an abstraction to do this; only implemented on Linux, but should be possible on BSD.

Since VFIO has to go to PCI config space too for some things, could you please amend your patch to make VFIO use this generic API also? Currently, it uses VFIO to read and write from PCI config.

Thanks,
Anatoly


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