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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] uio: new driver to support PCI MSI-X
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:11:35 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:

> To sum it up,
> We want to remove the need of the out-of-tree module igb_uio.
> 3 possible implementations were discussed so far:
> - new UIO driver
> - extend uio_pci_generic
> - VFIO without IOMMU

There is recent progress on VFIO without IOMMU. This looks the most promising
long term solution.