Re: device assignemnt: updated patches

Avi Kivity
2008-07-26T09:32:38Z

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.

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