Re: [RFC 7/11] virtio_pci: new, capability-aware driver.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2012-01-11 20:59:18
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2012-01-11 20:59:18
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 13:42 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 01/11/2012 11:08 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:quoted
Not sure what you mean. Using VQ is DMA which is pretty common for PCI.Do you know of a network device that obtains it's mac address via a DMA transaction?
I wouldn't be surprised if we could find one, but even if we don't why is that an issue ? Cheers, Ben.