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    SubjectRe: A set of "standard" virtual devices?
    Jeff Garzik wrote:
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    > 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.
    >

    This is true, of course. However, there are going to be a set of
    virtual devices which don't necessarily have to have super-high
    performance. In the case of a hwrng device, even doing DMA is probably
    overkill.

    > Outside of pci_device_id driver matching, is there much value here?

    If we can get a set of device drivers that if not all then at least a
    number of hypervisors and/or emulators can agree upon, I think that's
    much won.

    -hpa
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