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Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:31:09 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] drivers: platform: goldfish:
 goldfish_address_space: add a driver
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 06:11:11PM -0800, rkir@google.com wrote:
> From: Roman Kiryanov <rkir@google.com>
> 
> A driver for the Goldfish Android emulator that occupies
> address space to use it with the memory sharing device
> on the QEMU side. The memory sharding device allocates
> subranges and populate them with actual RAM.
> This allows sharing host's memory with the guest.
> 

Do you have a pointer to the QEMU commit that matches up with the device
that this driver is supposed to be supporting?  That would help in
trying to review the code to determine exactly what this driver is doing
and why the existing memory driver does not work well enough for you
(hint, you didn't say why you need this...)

thanks,

greg k-h