[RFC] eal: remove support for I/O port
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Apr 8 21:04:17 CEST 2025
On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:30:32 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> In early days of virtio, the x86 I/O instructions were used
> to ring the doorbell for host access. To support these DPDK
> needed to enable IO access. This is no longer necessary and
> the vestiage can be marked deprecated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
Not yet, FreeBSD still uses it and the virtio support still needs it.
Really needs to go since many kernels fully block userspace to I/O
because it allows unrestricted access to hardware.
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