diff --git a/hw/s390x/ap-stub.c b/hw/s390x/ap-stub.c
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+/*
+ * VFIO based AP matrix device assignment
+ *
+ * Copyright 2025 IBM Corp.
+ * Author(s): Rorie Reyes <rre...@linux.ibm.com>
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2
or (at
+ * your option) any later version. See the COPYING file in the
top-level
+ * directory.
FYI, I dropped the redundent license boilerplate. See [1].
C.
[1]
https://github.com/legoater/qemu/commit/8db3dbac401c56da6e865dcba1304f305555c22d
No problem! Thank you Cedric
