Introduction
In this post, I will give an introduction of the PCI device emulation in QEMU. I will start from the function pci_register_bar. Then I will introduce the PCI bus initialization and update. Based on the information given above, I will explain how RTL8139 and MMIO are expected to work through DMA (Direct Memory Access).
I also strongly recommend reading the reference [1] and [2]. They give some other useful information for PCI device in QEMU.
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