Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:25:02 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices? |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > However, one probably wants to think about what the heck one actually > means with "virtualization" in the absence of a lot of this stuff. PCI > is probably the closest thing we have to a lowest common denominator for > device detection.
Sure, but let's look beyond device detection. For instance, it does not necessarily follow that emulating PCI DMA is the best way to go for communication with a virtual device, once detected.
Outside of pci_device_id driver matching, is there much value here?
Jeff
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