On 07/14/2014 10:37 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:> The obvious thing to
consider is whether this could be used to
> circumvent the GPL.
>
> I think a generic memory-mapped I/O device interface is not a good idea
> in this respect, also because it's hard to get it right.
Okay, if this is a concern I will have to keep my changes off the
mainline as it is a required feature.
> But i2c is
> simple enough, and there are so many devices with a 4-page datasheet,
> that I think it would be acceptable. You could also write an i2c
> passthrough chardev backend that connects to /dev/i2c* and lets the
> guest access slaves in the host.
My interest is to fake sensor values for the guest and not to connect
anything to real hardware. I think I misinterpreted your "chardev". To
clarify: My guest is a bare metal ARM image, no linux and I don't want
to interact with the host's hardware. So no chardev in the linux sense
is involved.
Anyway thank you for your feedback.
Regards
Alexander
