On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 02:22:36PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:13:09 +0100 > Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > the nvlink2 vfio subdriver is a weird beast. It supports a hardware > > feature without any open source component - what would normally be > > the normal open source userspace that we require for kernel drivers, > > although in this particular case user space could of course be a > > kernel driver in a VM. It also happens to be a complete mess that > > does not properly bind to PCI IDs, is hacked into the vfio_pci driver > > and also pulles in over 1000 lines of code always build into powerpc > > kernels that have Power NV support enabled. Because of all these > > issues and the lack of breaking userspace when it is removed I think > > the best idea is to simply kill. > > > > Changes since v1: > > - document the removed subtypes as reserved > > - add the ACK from Greg > > > > Diffstat: > > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/npu-dma.c | 705 > > --------------------------- > > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h | 3 > > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h | 1 > > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci.h | 7 > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/Makefile | 2 > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-call.c | 2 > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 185 ------- > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.c | 11 > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h | 17 > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pci.c | 23 > > b/drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig | 6 > > b/drivers/vfio/pci/Makefile | 1 > > b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 18 > > b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h | 14 > > b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 38 - > > > Hi Christoph, > > FYI, these uapi changes break build of QEMU.
What uapi changes? What exactly breaks? Why does QEMU require kernel driver stuff? thanks, greg k-h
