Re: [PATCH v10 0/7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 14:33:58 EST


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Do those patches allow using a VF on the host (in other words, does the
> kernel emulate config space accesses)?

SR-IOV hardware handles config space accesses to virtual functions. No
kernel changes needed for that aspect of it.

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