NAME

       xen-pci-device-reservations - Xen PCI device ID registry

Description

       PCI vendor ID 0x5853 has been reserved for use by Xen systems in order to advertise certain virtual
       hardware to guest virtual machines. The primary use of this is with device ID 0x0001 to advertise the Xen
       Platform PCI device - the presence of this virtual device enables a guest Operating System (subject to
       the availability of suitable drivers) to make use of paravirtualisation features such as disk and network
       devices etc.

       Some Xen vendors wish to provide alternative and/or additional guest drivers that can bind to virtual
       devices[1]. This may be done using the Xen PCI vendor ID of 0x5853 and Xen-vendor/device specific PCI
       device IDs. This file records reservations made within the device ID range in order to avoid multiple Xen
       vendors using conflicting IDs.

Guidelines

       1. A vendor may request a range of device IDs by submitting a patch to this file.
       2. Vendor allocations should be in the range 0xc000-0xfffe to reduce the possibility of clashes with
       community IDs assigned from the bottom up.
       3. The vendor is responsible for allocations within the range and should try to record specific device
       IDs in PCI ID databases such as https://pci-ids.ucw.cz and https://devicehunt.com

Reservations

               range     | vendor/product
           --------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
           0x0001        | (Xen Platform PCI device)
           0x0002        | Citrix XenServer (grandfathered allocation for XenServer 6.1)
           0xc000-0xc0ff | Citrix XenServer
           0xc100-0xc1ff | Citrix XenClient
           0xc200-0xc2ff | XCP-ng Project (https://xcp-ng.org)

Notes

       1.  Upstream  QEMU  provides  a  parameterized  device called xen-pvdevice that can be used to host guest
           drivers. Execute:

               qemu-system-i386 -device xen-pvdevice,help

           for a list of all parameters. The following parameters are relevant to driver binding:

           vendor-id (default 0x5853)
               The PCI vendor ID and subsystem vendor ID of the device.

           device-id (must be specified)
               The PCI device ID and subsystem device ID of the device.

           revision (default 0x01)
               The PCI revision of the device

           Also the size parameter (default 0x400000) can be used to specify the size of  the  single  MMIO  BAR
           that the device exposes. This area may be used by drivers for mapping grant tables, etc.

           Note  that the presence of the Xen Platform PCI device is generally a pre-requisite for an additional
           xen-pvdevice as it is the platform device that  provides  that  IO  ports  necessary  for  unplugging
           emulated devices. See hvm-emulated-unplug.markdown for details of the IO ports and unplug protocol.

           libxl  provides  support  for  creation  of  a single additional xen-pvdevice.  See the vendor_device
           parameter in xl.cfg(5).

4.17.4-pre                                         2024-04-01                     xen-pci-device-reservations(7)