[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] vfio: use ifdef's for ppc64 spapr code

David Christensen drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 30 18:22:23 CEST 2020


>> Enclose ppc64 specific SPAPR VFIO support with ifdef's.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
> 
> Why is this needed?

It's hardware specific to the PPC64 platform.  I don't know of a 
situation where the IOMMU would be present on other hardware.  Even 
running a VM in KVM/QEMU on a PPC64 platform results in a SPAPR V1 IOMMU 
which isn't supported in DPDK.

Dave


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