Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm: Remove ability to assign a device without iommusupport

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/20/2011 11:12 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > 
> > Well, Alex suggested skipping deprecation period because there are
> > currently no users of KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE without
> > KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_ENABLE_IOMMU, so it should be fine to just make it the
> > default behavior, no?
>
> This iommu-less mode used to "work" for older qemu-kvm version, and I
> think it should still do. Though it makes no sense, I fully agree.
>

It only worked for special kernels that allowed 1:1 gpa/hpa mappings, IIRC.

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