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Subject: [PATCH v9 01/13] admin: Introduce self group
Define self group to control the self device itself. Subsequent patches introduces the concept of device capabilities and device resources which utilizes the self group to access capabilities and uses device resources to refer to the device itself. Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/179 Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> --- admin.tex | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/admin.tex b/admin.tex index 0803c26..00784b3 100644 --- a/admin.tex +++ b/admin.tex @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ \section{Device groups}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Device groups} It is occasionally useful to have a device control a group of -other devices. Terminology used in such cases: +other devices or self control. Terminology used in such cases: \begin{description} \item[Device group] @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ \section{Device groups}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Device g The following group types, and their identifiers, are currently specified: \begin{description} +\item[Self group type (0x0)] +This device group refers to the device itself. +The member identifier for this group has a value of 0x0. This group type +is used by the driver to control the device itself. + \item[SR-IOV group type (0x1)] This device group has a PCI Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) physical function (PF) device as the owner and includes @@ -78,6 +83,7 @@ \subsection{Group administration commands}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virti /* Device-readable part */ le16 opcode; /* + * 0 - Self * 1 - SR-IOV * 2-65535 - reserved */ -- 2.34.1
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