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On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 02:20:37PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> People will just use out of tree drivers (dpdk has several already).  It's a
> pain, but nowhere near what you are proposing.

What's the issue with that? We already agreed this kernel
is going to be tainted, and unsupportable.