On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 11:03:10AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > The vfio-fsl-mc driver has been orphaned since April 2024 after the > maintainer became unresponsive. More than a year later, the driver > has only received community maintenance. Let's take the next step > towards removal by marking it obsolete/deprecated. > > The vfio-platform and vfio-amba drivers have an active maintainer, > but even the maintainer has no ability to test these drivers anymore. > The hardware itself has become obsolete and despite Eric's efforts to > add support for new devices and presenting on the complexities of > trying to manage and support shared resources at KVM Forum 2024, the > state of the driver and ability to test it upstream has not advanced. > The experiment has been useful, but seems to be reaching a conclusion. > QEMU intends to remove vfio-platform support in the 10.2 release. > Mark these drivers as obsolete/deprecated in the kernel as well. It seems fine, but I'd just remove them entirely right now. It is easy enough to revert a removal down the road if someone comes with a compelling reason. Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Jason
