[dpdk-dev] Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Thu Oct 1 17:11:54 CEST 2015


On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 02:32:19PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >  We already agreed this kernel
> >is going to be tainted, and unsupportable.
> 
> Yes.  So your only motivation in rejecting the patch is to get the author to
> write the ring translation patch and port it to all relevant drivers
> instead?

Not only that.

To make sure users are aware they are doing insecure
things when using software poking at device BARs in sysfs.
To avoid giving virtualization a bad name for security.
To get people to work on safe, maintainable solutions.

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MST


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