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    Remove pci-shmem device · 5cb470e4
    Alexandru Elisei authored
    The pci-shmem emulated device ("ivshmem") was created by QEMU for
    cross-VM data sharing. The only Linux driver that uses this device is
    the Android Virtual System on a Chip staging driver, which also mentions
    a character device driver implemented on top of shmem, which was removed
    from Linux.
    
    On the kvmtool side, the only commits touching the pci-shmem device
    since it was introduced in 2012 were made when refactoring various
    kvmtool subsystems. Let's remove the maintenance burden on the kvmtool
    maintainers and remove this unused device.
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