libmetal on Linux without kernel modules (uio_pdrv_genirq etc.)?

[infn-ke]

Is it supported to run libmetal on Linux without having the kernel modules uio_pdrv_genirq, uio_dmem_genirq, vfio-pci and uio_pci_generic? The code tries to do modprobe on these in metal_linux_probe_driver. I want to use openamp on Linux but without being tied to those kernel modules.

[edmooring]

Unfortunately, there is no way to do that right now. De-coupling the libmetal device abstraction on linux from UIO would be challenging.

[infn-ke]

I tried to decouple it by replacing the metal_sys_init with an implementation that simply registers the generic bus metal_generic_bus rather than doing modprobe on all the kernel modules. Then I just register a generic device describing a shared memory (metal_register_generic_device). Wouldn't that be a viable path?

[edmooring]

Sorry about the delay in responding. That might work. I may need something similar, so I will probably try something like it.