From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Lyon <pugs@cisco.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
randy.dunlap@oracle.com, arnd@arndb.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
joro@8bytes.org, hjk@linutronix.de, avi@redhat.com,
gregkh@suse.de, aafabbri@cisco.com, scofeldm@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:57:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100728215739.GA9671@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280354222.3919.12.camel@x201>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:57:02PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>
> Something like GET_MSIX_VECTORS seems like a user library routine to me.
> The PCI config space is well specified and if we try to do more than
> shortcut trivial operations (like getting the BAR length), we risk
> losing functionality. And for my purposes, translating to and from a
> made up API to PCI for the guest seems like a pain.
Won't a userspace library do just as well for you?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-16 21:58 [PATCH V3] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers Tom Lyon
2010-07-16 21:58 ` Tom Lyon
2010-07-17 8:45 ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2010-07-20 20:20 ` Greg KH
2010-07-18 9:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-19 4:56 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-19 10:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-27 22:13 ` Tom Lyon
2010-07-27 23:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-28 21:14 ` Tom Lyon
2010-07-28 21:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-28 21:57 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-28 21:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-07-28 22:13 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-29 14:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-30 20:42 ` Alex Williamson
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