Re: [PATCH] um: virt-pci: set device ready in probe()

From: Vincent Whitchurch
Date: Mon Jun 13 2022 - 02:51:29 EST


On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 02:34:04AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> BTW Johannes I think you need to spec this device and get
> an ID - what's the plan for that? Current hack of punting
> this to userspace isn't really any good long term.

There is work ongoing in QEMU to add a new vfio-user protocol to support
out-of-process PCI device emulation. Perhaps an option would be to use
that protocol instead in UML too in the future?