> The driver certainly shouldn't offer VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_DMA_MEM if you
> don't have DMA!

OK, so the feature table could be done like this:

 static unsigned int features[] = {
        VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_SIZE,
        VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_MULTIPORT,
#if VIRTIO_CONSOLE_HAS_DMA
        VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_DMA_MEM,
#endif
}

If the device then asks for VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_DMA_MEM
when DMA is not supported, virtio will do BUG_ON() from
virtio_check_driver_offered_feature().

Is this acceptable or should we add a check in virtcons_probe()
and let the probing fail instead?

E.g:
        /* Refuse to bind if F_DMA_MEM request cannot be met */
        if (!VIRTIO_CONSOLE_HAS_DMA &&
            (vdev->config->get_features(vdev) & (1 << 
VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_DMA_MEM))){
                dev_err(&vdev->dev,
                        "DMA_MEM requested, but arch does not support DMA\n");
                err = -EINVAL;
                goto fail;
        }

Regards,
Sjur
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