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

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On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 19:48 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
Any of the type 1 hypervisors here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

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




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