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Re: [Xen-devel] Will Xen support PCI add-on card for serial ports?

To: Neo Jia <neojia@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Will Xen support PCI add-on card for serial ports?
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:33:52 +0100
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Not within Xen itself, although they can be driven by dom0 no problem.
Actually some PCI cards can even be driven by Xen, if you work out where the
BIOS allocates the I/O port resource by default. Then you can manually
configure the I/O port base and IRQ on the Xen command line.

 -- Keir

On 11/7/08 10:03, "Neo Jia" <neojia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> It looks that Xen currently only support ISA serial port, which is onboard.
> 
> Is there any plan to support the PCI serial port?
> 
> Thanks,
> Neo



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