There is really no way to safely give a user full access to a DMA
capable device without an IOMMU to protect the host system. There is
also no way to provide DMA translation, for use cases such as device
assignment to virtual machines. However, there are still those users
that want userspace driv
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 03:51:18PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> There is really no way to safely give a user full access to a DMA
> capable device without an IOMMU to protect the host system. There is
> also no way to provide DMA translation, for use cases such as device
> assignment to virtual
There is really no way to safely give a user full access to a DMA
capable device without an IOMMU to protect the host system. There is
also no way to provide DMA translation, for use cases such as device
assignment to virtual machines. However, there are still those users
that want userspace driv
