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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 7/11] virtio_pci: new, capability-aware driver.
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:59:18 +1100
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On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 13:42 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 11:08 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > Not sure what you mean. Using VQ is DMA which is pretty common for PCI.
> 
> Do you know of a network device that obtains it's mac address via a DMA transaction?

I wouldn't be surprised if we could find one, but even if we don't why
is that an issue ?

Cheers,
Ben.