[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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