vfio-user: introduce vfio-user protocol specification
This patch introduces the vfio-user protocol specification (formerly
known as VFIO-over-socket), which is designed to allow devices to be
emulated outside QEMU, in a separate process. vfio-user reuses the
existing VFIO defines, structs and concepts.
It has been earlier discussed as an RFC in:
"RFC: use VFIO over a UNIX domain socket to implement device offloading"
Signed-off-by: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250625193012.2316242-20-john.levon@nutanix.com
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
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