Core infrastructure that lets a single physical device be carved into multiple virtual instances which can then be assigned to virtual machines through VFIO. It is best known as the plumbing behind NVIDIA vGPU and IBM s390 vfio-ccw/vfio-ap, rather than being tied to any one piece of hardware itself.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is the shared mediated-device framework inside the VFIO subsystem that other drivers build on top of to expose virtual slices of hardware to guest VMs. A keep/remove judgement does not apply at this level.
repository signals
6files
682source lines
39commits, 5y
+309 / −673lines added / removed, 5y
15authors, 5y
monthly commits · 2021-04-21 → 2026-04-21 · 39 total · active in 17/61 months
sources
No sources cited.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Not a driver directory: VFIO mediated-device core/framework code, not a hardware-specific kernel driver.