diff --git a/include/hw/cxl/cxl.h b/include/hw/cxl/cxl.h
index 8c738c7a2b..b9d1ac3fad 100644
--- a/include/hw/cxl/cxl.h
+++ b/include/hw/cxl/cxl.h
@@ -12,5 +12,6 @@
 
 #include "cxl_pci.h"
 #include "cxl_component.h"
+#include "cxl_device.h"
 
 #endif
diff --git a/include/hw/cxl/cxl_device.h b/include/hw/cxl/cxl_device.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b2416e45bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/hw/cxl/cxl_device.h
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+/*
+ * QEMU CXL Devices
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2020 Intel
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. See the
+ * COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#ifndef CXL_DEVICE_H
+#define CXL_DEVICE_H
+
+#include "hw/register.h"
+
+/*
+ * The following is how a CXL device's MMIO space is laid out. The only
+ * requirement from the spec is that the capabilities array and the capability
+ * headers start at offset 0 and are contiguously packed. The headers themselves
+ * provide offsets to the register fields. For this emulation, registers will
+ * start at offset 0x80 (m == 0x80). No secondary mailbox is implemented which
+ * means that n = m + sizeof(mailbox registers) + sizeof(device registers).
+ *
+ * This is roughly described in 8.2.8 Figure 138 of the CXL 2.0 spec.
+ *
+ *                       +---------------------------------+
+ *                       |                                 |
+ *                       |    Memory Device Registers      |
+ *                       |                                 |
+ * n + PAYLOAD_SIZE_MAX  -----------------------------------
+ *                  ^    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |         Mailbox Payload         |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    -----------------------------------
+ *                  |    |       Mailbox Registers         |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  n    -----------------------------------
+ *                  ^    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |        Device Registers         |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  m    ---------------------------------->
+ *                  ^    |  Memory Device Capability Header|
+ *                  |    -----------------------------------
+ *                  |    |     Mailbox Capability Header   |
+ *                  |    -------------- --------------------
+ *                  |    |     Device Capability Header    |
+ *                  |    -----------------------------------
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |      Device Cap Array[0..n]     |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                  |    |                                 |
+ *                       |                                 |
+ *                  0    +---------------------------------+
+ *
+ */
+
+#define CXL_DEVICE_CAP_HDR1_OFFSET 0x10 /* Figure 138 */
+#define CXL_DEVICE_CAP_REG_SIZE 0x10 /* 8.2.8.2 */
+#define CXL_DEVICE_CAPS_MAX 4 /* 8.2.8.2.1 + 8.2.8.5 */
+
+#define CXL_DEVICE_REGISTERS_OFFSET 0x80 /* Read comment above */
+#define CXL_DEVICE_REGISTERS_LENGTH 0x8 /* 8.2.8.3.1 */
+
+#define CXL_MAILBOX_REGISTERS_OFFSET \
+    (CXL_DEVICE_REGISTERS_OFFSET + CXL_DEVICE_REGISTERS_LENGTH)
+#define CXL_MAILBOX_REGISTERS_SIZE 0x20 /* 8.2.8.4, Figure 139 */
+#define CXL_MAILBOX_PAYLOAD_SHIFT 11
+#define CXL_MAILBOX_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE (1 << CXL_MAILBOX_PAYLOAD_SHIFT)
+#define CXL_MAILBOX_REGISTERS_LENGTH \
+    (CXL_MAILBOX_REGISTERS_SIZE + CXL_MAILBOX_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE)
+
+typedef struct cxl_device_state {
+    MemoryRegion device_registers;
+
+    /* mmio for device capabilities array - 8.2.8.2 */
+    MemoryRegion device;
+    MemoryRegion caps;
+
+    /* mmio for the mailbox registers 8.2.8.4 */
+    MemoryRegion mailbox;
+
+    /* memory region for persistent memory, HDM */
+    uint64_t pmem_size;
+} CXLDeviceState;
+
+/* Initialize the register block for a device */
+void cxl_device_register_block_init(Object *obj, CXLDeviceState *dev);
+
+/* Set up default values for the register block */
+void cxl_device_register_init_common(CXLDeviceState *dev);
+
+/*
+ * CXL 2.0 - 8.2.8.1 including errata F4
+ * Documented as a 128 bit register, but 64 bit accesses and the second
+ * 64 bits are currently reserved.
+ */
+REG64(CXL_DEV_CAP_ARRAY, 0) /* Documented as 128 bit register but 64 byte accesses */
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_CAP_ARRAY, CAP_ID, 0, 16)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_CAP_ARRAY, CAP_VERSION, 16, 8)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_CAP_ARRAY, CAP_COUNT, 32, 16)
+
+/*
+ * Helper macro to initialize capability headers for CXL devices.
+ *
+ * In the 8.2.8.2, this is listed as a 128b register, but in 8.2.8, it says:
+ * > No registers defined in Section 8.2.8 are larger than 64-bits wide so that
+ * > is the maximum access size allowed for these registers. If this rule is not
+ * > followed, the behavior is undefined
+ *
+ * CXL 2.0 Errata F4 states futher that the layouts in the specification are
+ * shown as greater than 128 bits, but implementations are expected to
+ * use any size of access up to 64 bits.
+ *
+ * Here we've chosen to make it 4 dwords. The spec allows any pow2 multiple
+ * access to be used for a register up to 64 bits.
+ */
+#define CXL_DEVICE_CAPABILITY_HEADER_REGISTER(n, offset)  \
+    REG32(CXL_DEV_##n##_CAP_HDR0, offset)                 \
+        FIELD(CXL_DEV_##n##_CAP_HDR0, CAP_ID, 0, 16)      \
+        FIELD(CXL_DEV_##n##_CAP_HDR0, CAP_VERSION, 16, 8) \
+    REG32(CXL_DEV_##n##_CAP_HDR1, offset + 4)             \
+        FIELD(CXL_DEV_##n##_CAP_HDR1, CAP_OFFSET, 0, 32)  \
+    REG32(CXL_DEV_##n##_CAP_HDR2, offset + 8)             \
+        FIELD(CXL_DEV_##n##_CAP_HDR2, CAP_LENGTH, 0, 32)
+
+CXL_DEVICE_CAPABILITY_HEADER_REGISTER(DEVICE, CXL_DEVICE_CAP_HDR1_OFFSET)
+CXL_DEVICE_CAPABILITY_HEADER_REGISTER(MAILBOX, CXL_DEVICE_CAP_HDR1_OFFSET + \
+                                               CXL_DEVICE_CAP_REG_SIZE)
+
+REG32(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CAP, 0)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CAP, PAYLOAD_SIZE, 0, 5)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CAP, INT_CAP, 5, 1)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CAP, BG_INT_CAP, 6, 1)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CAP, MSI_N, 7, 4)
+
+REG32(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CTRL, 4)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CTRL, DOORBELL, 0, 1)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CTRL, INT_EN, 1, 1)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CTRL, BG_INT_EN, 2, 1)
+
+REG64(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CMD, 8)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CMD, COMMAND, 0, 8)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CMD, COMMAND_SET, 8, 8)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_CMD, LENGTH, 16, 20)
+
+REG64(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_STS, 0x10)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_STS, BG_OP, 0, 1)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_STS, ERRNO, 32, 16)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_MAILBOX_STS, VENDOR_ERRNO, 48, 16)
+
+REG64(CXL_DEV_BG_CMD_STS, 0x18)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_BG_CMD_STS, BG, 0, 16)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_BG_CMD_STS, DONE, 16, 7)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_BG_CMD_STS, ERRNO, 32, 16)
+    FIELD(CXL_DEV_BG_CMD_STS, VENDOR_ERRNO, 48, 16)
+
+REG32(CXL_DEV_CMD_PAYLOAD, 0x20)
+
+#endif
