Emulating any given device about pcileech-fpga

[ufrisk]

You don't need to emulate a device to send/receive TLPs. It works with the default bitstream.

If you wish to fully emulate a device it's not supported. Only some degree of config space emulation is supported.

I read a while ago about a Phd thesis from Cambridge University when they did full device emulation by running the firmware of a networking board inside a qemu emulator shuffling the TLPs effectively emulating the networking board in full. I don't seem to be able to find that thesis now though.

[JRBusiness]

You don't need to emulate a device to send/receive TLPs. It works with the default bitstream.

If you wish to fully emulate a device it's not supported. Only some degree of config space emulation is supported.

I read a while ago about a Phd thesis from Cambridge University when they did full device emulation by running the firmware of a networking board inside a qemu emulator shuffling the TLPs effectively emulating the networking board in full. I don't seem to be able to find that thesis now though.

Does that meant they running a stock firmware of a Network Board or they running a modified PCILeech firmware to emulate the Board in full?

[ufrisk]

@JRBusiness the project was ThunderClap which is found here: https://github.com/thunderclap-io/thunderclap-qemu

It was way too complicated for my taste though and used some very high-end Intel FPGA hardware. For your uses I would think it to be mostly a dead end.