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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Auto rebind PCI devices

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:18:16PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:

> To clarify my thinking on this a little more: I think it would be good to be 
> able to move PCI devices between domains in a reasonably straightforward way. 
>  
> This would be something like the PCI hotplug for IBM's dynamic LPAR, which is 
> already supported by Linux.
> 
> The eventual goal being that you can reassign PCI devices "hotplug-style" (it 
> would look like a hotplug to the pcifront kernel) at runtime, with the user 
> interface providing appropriate safety checks / "do you really want this?" 
> dialogs, according to the level of confidence of the user.

Thank for the clarification; sounds good to me!

Cheers,
Muli
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/


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