Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] consoles, iosapics, and device interrupts

[Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>]

Le Vendredi 18 Novembre 2005 17:14, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) a 
écrit :
> Sounds like good progress, but a couple comments:
>
> I don't think we should put the ACPI namespace code into Xen/ia64.
> IIRC, this is a *lot* of code and I don't think it is worth
> adding it just so we can have console input to Xen
> without going through Dom0.   I think the Cambridge Xen
> team would agree...
Ok.

> Is it possible to have console input routed to Xen
> through Dom0 via the virtual console?  This of course
> will be worthless before Xen boots Dom0, or if Dom0 crashes.
> But there really is limited value for direct console input
> into Xen except for debugging -- and it is a potentially
> big security hole.
However, this is how it works now on x86.

> Last, it might be worth promoting this discussion to
> xen-devel as there might be some useful input from
> Cambridge and the IBM Power port team.  Alex, could
> you summarize the discussion to date and post it to
> xen-devel for comment?
Good idea.

Tristan.


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