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Re: [Xen-devel] [pvops-dom0] [patch] Hook Linux's PCI probe and remove

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [pvops-dom0] [patch] Hook Linux's PCI probe and remove callbacks
From: Andy Burns <xen.lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:28:54 +0100
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2009/7/16 Han, Weidong <weidong.han@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hijack the pci_bus_type probe and remove callbacks. This option only
> requires modification to the Xen specific part of Linux.
>
> This is useful to add and remove pci device to Xen hypervisor when
> load and remove its driver. For example, when VFs are created by PF,
> they will be added to Xen hypervisor, and then can be assigned to guest.

Do I understand this patch is working towards adding pciback support
to pv_ops dom0?

Will it it allow device passthrough for CPUs without an IOMMU like
2.6.18 dom0 does?

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