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From:   Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:45:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: DMA Engine: Transfer From Userspace
To:     Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
Cc:     Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:37 PM Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch> wrote:
> >Federico, what use case do you have in mind?
>
> Userspace drivers

Is using vfio an option?

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Thanks,
//richard