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Date:   Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:50:05 +0200
From:   Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: virt-pci: set device ready in probe()
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 02:34:04AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> BTW Johannes I think you need to spec this device and get
> an ID - what's the plan for that? Current hack of punting
> this to userspace isn't really any good long term.

There is work ongoing in QEMU to add a new vfio-user protocol to support
out-of-process PCI device emulation.  Perhaps an option would be to use
that protocol instead in UML too in the future?