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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] pci-assign: Drop support for raw ioport access
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 17:06:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC38659.8090309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC377AD.8060201@web.de>

On 05/28/2012 04:03 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> 
> If the kernel does not support ioport access via sysfs, passthrough can
> only help if the unlikely case that a port <= 0x3ff is provided by the
> device. So drop this to simplify the code and to allow dropping the
> corresponding KVM infrastructure in preparation of upstream merge.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> ---
> 
> Does anyone recall the precise use case this was introduced for? It
> exists since day #1, so commit logs do not help.

At a wild guess, graphics device assignment.

Under what conditions would the kernel not support ioport access via sysfs?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-28 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-28 13:03 [RFC][PATCH] pci-assign: Drop support for raw ioport access Jan Kiszka
2012-05-28 14:06 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-05-29  7:47   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-05-29  9:26     ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-29 13:47       ` Alex Williamson
2012-05-29 14:00         ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-29  9:23 ` [PATCH] qemu-kvm: " Jan Kiszka
2012-05-29 13:51 ` [RFC][PATCH] pci-assign: " Alex Williamson
2012-05-29 14:41 ` Alex Williamson
2012-05-29 15:45   ` Jan Kiszka

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