Re: [PATCH 17/17] arm64: Do not expose PCI mmap through procfs

[Sinan Kaya]

On 3/22/2017 10:04 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 09:54 -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> On 3/22/2017 9:25 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>> +#ifdef __aarch64__
>>> +/* ARM64 wants to be special and not expose this through /proc
>>> like everyone else */
>>> +#undef HAVE_PCI_MMAP
>>> +#endif
>>> +
>> Where is this ARM64 special requirement coming from?
> 
> The idea is that as a new platform, ARM64 shouldn't need to implement
> legacy userspace interfaces.
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-April/422571.html
> 

Aren't we breaking an ABI for userspace? I know DPDK relies on this feature.

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