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charset="us-ascii" On Mon, Aug 31, 2026, Steffen Eiden wrote: > Allow KVM implementations to choose alternative device names. This is > especially useful for architectures providing multiple KVM > implementations simultaneously. Architectures providing multiple KVM > implementations must compile the KVM common code once per > implementation and mange symbols. What about tracepoints? Or do those show up as "kvm" and "kvm-arm64"?