On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:56:56PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > mmio and pio are easy, DMA you'd need an IOMMU for security, or > > whatever uio does just for translation, > > uio currently does not support DMA, but I plan to fix this
With or without an IOMMU? > > and interrupts you probably get for free from uio. Seems eminently > > doable to me. Why you'd want to is another matter :-) > > The list above ignores the biggest issue: you would have to change > TCG code generation to make this work. Yep, I know nothing about TCG, only looking at this from the device interaction side. > I am not sure this problem is solvable unless host and guest > architectures are very similar. Now you are ignoring the most interesting issue, namely, why would you want to solve it? What is the value of device assignment for TCG targets? Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda | m...@il.ibm.com | +972-4-8281080 Manager, Virtualization and Systems Architecture Master Inventor, IBM Research -- Haifa Second Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '10): http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/hrl/wiov2010/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
