Re: Sound translator / PCI device handling

[Olaf Buddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 01:24:17PM +0000, Antti Kantee wrote:

> IMO the right way to do device drivers in a hosted environment is to
> have one entity which decides which servers see which devices and just
> let the servers attach to all devices they see.

>From what I gathered from Robert's and your explanations, it sounds to
me like the PCI server we are envisioning would be perfectly in line
with this design. The PCI server would expose one UNIX device node for
each PCI device present; and the Hurd backend in libpciaccess would open
these nodes to access the config space bits of any particular device.

The device node(s) to use would probably be passed as command line
parameters to each Rump translator instance -- so it would only see the
devices explicitly specified. No need for any other configuration :-)

-antrik-