Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Add virtio-iommu built-in topology

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 02:50:46PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 08:41:21AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > But this has nothing to do with Linux.  There is also no guarantee that
> > the two committees will decide to use exactly the same format. Once one
> > of them sets the format in stone, we can add support for that format to
> > linux. If another one is playing nice and uses the same format, we can
> > use the same parsers. If it doesn't linux will have to follow suit.
> 
> Or Linux decides to support only one of the formats, which would then be
> ACPI.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Joerg

It's really up to hypervisors not guests, linux as a guest can for sure
refuse to work somewhere, but that's normally not very attractive.

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MST