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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 7/11] virtio_pci: new, capability-aware driver.
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:14:38 +0200
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 01:42:39PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 11:08 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> >Not sure what you mean. Using VQ is DMA which is pretty common for PCI.
> 
> Do you know of a network device that obtains it's mac address via a DMA transaction?

Sure.
See mlx4_replace_mac in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/port.c

> Regards,
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> Anthony Liguori
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