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Seriously, no.

And this isn't just an unhelpful comment on a forum. This is serious advice from an expert here.

After patching the Nvidia driver and then patching the driver itself to allow other non-standard vgpu definitions what's the point of this? Its at best a feel good that I reimplemented a tiny part. You'd be better contributing patches against binary blobs to the community rather than wasting time on this.

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Nearest I can tell the guy earlier thought what mdevctl is (echo uuid >> /sys/mdev_bus/$pci-device/available-types/) is the same as what we are doing. That couldn't be further from the truth. I tried explaining to him we arbitrarily define the available types on behalf of the vendor driver via user configuration. It’s the difference between picking from a pre-made list of things someone else says you’re allowed to do and making the list of things you’re allowed to do yourself.

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