On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 01:41:17PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 02:46:08PM +0100, Winiarski, Michal wrote: > > > > I agree that it should be done in the core eventually. > > > > I didn't view it as something blocking next revision, as the discussion > > > > was in the context of converting every driver, which is something that > > > > probably shouldn't be done as part of this series. > > > > > > well it doesn't make much sense to push a new driver specific > > > implementation when the core approach is preferred. > > > > This would generally mean that accepting any new VFIO driver variant > > would be blocked until core approach materializes. > > > > Jason, can you confirm that this is indeed what you have in mind? > > Just to determine how urgent the core-side changes are, and whether > > there's anything we can do to help with that. > > A core approach would be nice, but I also haven't looked at what it > would be like. > > I think if you post a small series trying to build one and convert > some of the existing drivers it would be sufficient to let this go > ahead. > > Jason
I posted a series that attempts to do just that. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ I would appreciate if we could move forward with the review of this series independently. It should be relatively straightforward to convert this driver once we're able to get an alignment on specific core-side solution. -Michał
