Re: OVMF and passed usb 3. controller

Re: OVMF and passed usb 3. controller

[Eugene Chekanskiy]

Thanks a lot for reply, guys. Bios form https://www.kraxel.org rly helped
and my keyboard working fine.

Thanks,
Eugene.

2016-07-26 4:36 GMT+03:00 Tian, Feng <feng.tian@intel.com>:

> If the renesas usb 3.0 host controller follows XHCI spec, then EDKII XHCI
> driver could be used to manage it.
>
> Thanks
> Feng
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 5:07 PM
> To: Eugene Chekanskiy <echekanskiy@gmail.com>; edk2-devel@ml01.01.org
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>; Tian, Feng <feng.tian@intel.com>;
> Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2] OVMF and passed usb 3. controller
>
> On 07/22/16 15:25, Eugene Chekanskiy wrote:
> > Hello everyone. Just wondering if default builds of ovmf form
> > http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf/ has support of renesas usb 3.0
> > controller and if we can enable it in custom build.
>
> First, please don't use the binary from <http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf>.
> It is incredibly old (Feb 9 2014). Instead, I recommend <
> http://www.kraxel.org/repos/> for anything "bleeding edge".
>
> (Unless you are willing to build your own OVMF, of course, in which case I
> recommend that instead).
>
> Second, OVMF includes the "MdeModulePkg/Bus/Pci/XhciDxe" driver. I assume
> you assign your Renesas host controller to the virtual machine; is that
> right? If your host controller is supported by XhciDxe otherwise (IOW it
> would work in a purely physical setup), then I think it should work with
> device assignment as well.
>
> CC: Gerd for owning kraxel.org and for USB knowledge
> CC: Feng for maintaining XhciDxe
> CC: Alex for any possible quirks with USB host controller assignment
>
> Thanks
> Laszlo
>