On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:59:02 +0300 Avi Kivity <a...@scylladb.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2015 01:28 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > This is a new UIO device driver to allow supporting MSI-X and MSI devices > > in userspace. It has been used in environments like VMware and older > > versions > > of QEMU/KVM where no IOMMU support is available. > > Why not add msi/msix support to uio_pci_generic? That is possible but that would meet ABI and other resistance from the author. Also, uio_pci_generic makes it harder to find resources since it doesn't fully utilize UIO infrastructure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
