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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/1] vfio/nvgpu: Add vfio pci variant module for grace
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:21:50PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> There's really never a guarantee that the thing we're exposing via the
> vfio uAPI has mainline drivers, for example we don't consult the
> nouveau device table before we expose an NVIDIA GPU to a Windows guest
> running proprietary device drivers.

As I said in my initial mail there's a huge different between a simple
passthrough like vfio-pci that doesn't care about the actual device,
and a driver like this one that is completely device specific.