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RE: [Xen-users] Serial port in domU

To: "Mark Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Serial port in domU
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:44:21 +0100
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 > > Accessing serial ports directly from other domains work 
> fine with the 
> > unstable tree. If you search you should be able to find an email 
> > thread about this some months back. Just compile a driver into the 
> > kernel and give it access to the ioport range it needs.
> 
> Do we actually have hooks in the tools for dedicating IO port 
> ranges to domains?  I checked when this thread started and it 
> looked like the machinery was there in Xen but not exported 
> to the user.

I thought this had been added to xend. Maybe I'm imagining it and just
asigned a fake PCI device last time I tried this...
 
> If that's the case, it should be a fairly easy patch for 
> someone to roll up.

Indeed. Volunteers?

Ian

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