Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:30:40 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices? |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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.
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