Xen devel - Apr 2006 - [PATCH 3/5] pciback: new configuration space fields

Permissive mode should only be used as a fall back for unknown devices.
I think the correct solution for dealing with these device-specific
configuration space registers is to identify them and add the
device-specific fields to the overlay. This patch adds a special
configuration space handler for network cards based on the tg3 linux
network device driver. This handler should allow for reads/writes to all
of the configuration space registers that the tg3 driver requires.

This patch also adds the ability to have restricted write access to some
of the structures on the capability list. Specifically, this patch adds
support for reading data through the Vital Product Data capability
structure and for manipulating power management of a card. A driver
domain is not allowed to enable Power Management Events (the PME trace
may be shared across devices in many domains), but it can put a device
in its control to sleep or query it for power usage statistics. This
code could possibly be expanded in the future to add support for AGP,
PCI-X, and MSI/MSIX (all of which are controlled through structures on
the capability list).

Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson <hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil>


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