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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] VT-d: prevent dom0 to use VT-d HW

To: Christian Tramnitz <chris.ace@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] VT-d: prevent dom0 to use VT-d HW
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:07:38 +0100
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Christian Tramnitz writes ("[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] VT-d: prevent dom0 to use 
VT-d HW"):
> Wouldn't be easier (and more likely to be adopted by upstream) to add a 
> Kconfig dependency like "depends on !XEN_DOM0" to VT-d?

I don't think that would be right.  Nowadays we want to be able to
build kernels that will work on bare hardware, or under Xen, rather
than baking the configuration statically into the kernel image.

Ian.

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