Re: [PATCH] Enable non page boundary BAR device assignment

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:24:47PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> > I guess this means you'll have to find a device with a sub-page
> > BAR to test this on, instead of hacking driver for a device with
> > full page BAR. Did anyone ever try doing passthrough on an
> > emulated device in nested virt?
> 
> We don't emulate an IOMMU, so no.

We have in-house patches to emulate VT-d, which work sufficiently well
to run unmodified Linux drivers for QEMU's emulation of e1000 and LSI
adapter, using unmodified Linux VT-d DMA-mapping code. The patches
need some lovin', but they'll be coming eventually.

Cheers,
Muli
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