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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] PATCH: optionnaly enable xen console withirq/input.

To: "Williamson, Alex (Linux Kernel Dev)" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, "Tristan Gingold" <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] PATCH: optionnaly enable xen console withirq/input.
From: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:57:07 -0700
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>    I also don't agree that the Xen keytable is only for 
> developers.  It
> may be that this is an important debugging tool and therefore required
> to be able to support a real customer.  I'd rather see this feature on
> by default so it's there for in-the-field debugging later, and so that
> the xen/ia64 community uses it and makes sure it works.  Thanks,

You may want to ask about this in xen-devel.  Long
ago iirc there was some concern expressed that the
keytable might present possible security holes (maybe
DoS attacks)?

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