On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote: > 2016-01-27 21:02, Santosh Shukla: >> 1. virtio currently works for vfio+noiommu and likely will work for >> vfio+iommu in near future. >> 2. So remove __noiommu suffix and always use default. >> 3. Introduce vfio resource parsing global function, That function >> suppose to do parsing for default vfio case and for vfio-noiommu case. >> This function will be used by pmd drivers for resource parsing purpose >> example virtio. >> >> Yuan won't be happy with 3) I guess, because he wanted to get rid of >> interface parsing from pmd driver. >> >> Thomas, if 1/2/3/ addresses your concern then I'll spin the series, > > I agree with 1/ and 2/. > Please, could you explain why 3/ is needed?
Because someone should do resource parsing / validation before driver does resource mapping/initialization. That someone could be either EAL layer or driver itself. In my case; - driver is virtio - resource is vfio interface
