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Re: [PATCH v1 00/22] vfio: Adopt iommufd
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Jason Gunthorpe |
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Re: [PATCH v1 00/22] vfio: Adopt iommufd |
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Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:51:53 -0300 |
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 02:42:48PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 8/30/23 12:37, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > As the kernel side iommufd cdev and hot reset feature have been queued,
> > also hwpt alloc has been added in Jason's for_next branch [1], I'd like
> > to update a new version matching kernel side update and with rfc flag
> > removed. Qemu code can be found at [2], look forward more comments!
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> FYI, I have started cleaning up the VFIO support in QEMU PPC. First
> is the removal of nvlink2, which was dropped from the kernel 2.5 years
> ago. Next is probably removal of all the PPC bits in VFIO. Code is
> bitrotting and AFAICT VFIO has been broken on these platforms since
> 5.18 or so.
It was fixed since then - at least one company (not IBM) still cares
about vfio on ppc, though I think it is for a DPDK use case not VFIO.
Jason