Re: [PATCH 0/5] Legacy direct-assign mode

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:28:37PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > correctly program bridge windows with physical addresses. Some customers are
> > using a legacy method that relies on the VMD subdevice domain's root port
> > windows to be written with the physical addresses. This method also allows
> > other hypervisors besides QEMU/KVM to perform guest passthrough.

This seems like a bad idea.  What are these other hypervisors?  AFAIK
there are no purely userspace hypervisors, so in other words what you
propose here is only for unsupported external modules.

I don't think we shoud merge something like this.



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