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SubjectRe: A set of "standard" virtual devices?
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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