Re: [PATCH corrected RFC] uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices

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On 07/10/2009 05:22 AM, Chris Wright wrote:
I know it's not strictly needed for PCI pass through, but it would be
useful to register the IO regions via UIO.  The userspace implementation
would then use UIO strictly instead of poking the sysfs pci info
directly.  I think that ends up being cleaner.

I don't see what the advantage is?

Have a single fd represent the assigned device, so security can be concentrated at that point. Some privileged server can then hand out the fd to qemu.

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