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Comment by fooker

15 days ago

No, that's not really what kernel bypass means.

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oasisaimlessly  15 days ago

Accessing hardware directky via /dev/mem is literally the original kernel bypass strategy, before we got the UIO and VFIO APIs to do it in a blessed way.

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