[RFC PATCH 0/7] support vfio platform PMD

[Tomasz Duszynski]

Hi Chenbo, 

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>From: Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia at intel.com>
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>> Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/7] support vfio platform PMD
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>> This series aims to add support for managing vfio platform devices
>> from userspace application conveniently i.e without going through the
>> configuration required by vfio and opencoding everything. Instead
>> convenience helpers are provided.
>>
>> vfio platform devices, from the kernel standpoint, are ones that do
>> not have built-in discovery capabilities and are behind an IOMMU.
>>
>> This PMD is backed by both vfio-platform and vfio kernel drivers and
>> ideally should give access to all vfio capabilities. As of now, access
>> to memory maps and DMA are supported.
>>
>> PMD requires platform bus support [1].
>>
>> [1]
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>I have not looked into all details. But just wondering: why not making this part of the platform
>bus. This seems generic and then vendors can have their own platform drivers.
>

Valid point. I'll rethink current approach.  

>Thanks,
>Chenbo