Trait chipset_device::pci::PciConfigSpace

pub trait PciConfigSpace: ChipsetDevice {
    // Required methods
    fn pci_cfg_read(&mut self, offset: u16, value: &mut u32) -> IoResult;
    fn pci_cfg_write(&mut self, offset: u16, value: u32) -> IoResult;

    // Provided method
    fn suggested_bdf(&mut self) -> Option<(u8, u8, u8)> { ... }
}

Implemented by devices which have a PCI config space.

Required Methods

fn pci_cfg_read(&mut self, offset: u16, value: &mut u32) -> IoResult

Dispatch a PCI config space read to the device with the given address.

fn pci_cfg_write(&mut self, offset: u16, value: u32) -> IoResult

Dispatch a PCI config space write to the device with the given address.

Provided Methods

fn suggested_bdf(&mut self) -> Option<(u8, u8, u8)>

Check if the device has a suggested (bus, device, function) it expects to be located at.

The term “suggested” is important here, as it’s important to note that one of the major selling points of PCI was that PCI devices shouldn’t need to care about about what PCI address they are initialized at. i.e: on a physical machine, it shouldn’t matter that your fancy GTX 4090 is plugged into the first vs. second PCI slot.

..that said, there are some instances where it makes sense for an emulated device to declare its suggested PCI address:

1. Devices that emulate bespoke PCI devices part of a particular system’s chipset.

• e.g: the PIIX4 chipset includes several bespoke PCI devices that are required to have specific PCI addresses. While it would be possible to relocate them to a different address, it may break OSes that assume they exist at those spec-declared addresses.

2. Multi-function PCI devices

• In an unfortunate case of inverted responsibilities, there is a single bit in the PCI configuration space’s Header register that denotes if a particular PCI card includes multiple functions.
• Since multi-function devices are pretty rare, ChipsetDevice opted to model each function as its own device, which in turn implies that in order to correctly init a multi-function PCI card, the ChipsetDevice with function 0 must report if there are other functions at the same bus and device.

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