RE: device assignemnt: updated patches

Han, Weidong
2008-07-26T09:48:55Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Han, Weidong wrote:
>>> How are we standing with merging the changes to the VT-d driver,
>>> which are a prerequisite?
>>>
>>
>> You mean push the changes into VT-d driver first. But the VT-d driver
>> modification patch maybe need some changes during following
>> development. How about making it stable in KVM first, then push it
>> into VT-d driver?
>>
>
> Yeah, we do have a chicken-and-egg situation here. I guess I can carry
> that patch while we're working this out.
>
> Longer term, we will have to move to a vendor neutral API so as to
> support amd iommu and non-x86 iommus.

I agree arch-independent support is direction. But we should make one
work first, then make it generic later.

Randy (Weidong)