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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
    http://pciids.sourceforge.net and http//www.pcidatabase.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

[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).