Re: [PATCH] Add support for pvpanic pci device

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 14:17, Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> This patchset adds support for pvpanic pci device. The patchset was assembled
> from chuncks from some old patches [1] from 2018 which were left unmerged and
> some additions from me.
>
> How to test this:
> /usr/bin/qemu-system-aarch64 \
>         -machine virt,gic-version=3 -device pvpanic-pci
>
> After that you need to run a Linux kernel as guest, but you have to also apply
> the patches I will send for adding pci support for the pvpanic driver.

Hi; I've reviewed most of the patches. I'm in principle in favour
of this, but the structuring of how the ISA and PCI versions of
the device are configured and built needs a little work. You
also need to sort out allocation of a PCI ID for it.

thanks
-- PMM