Re: [Xen-devel] netfront + netconsole

To:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] netfront + netconsole
From:	Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:35:05 +0000
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On 22/3/07 08:16, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not being familiar with networking on Linux, could anyone indicate how
> difficult
> it would be to make netconsole work with netfront (i.e. add polling support to
> the netdev)?

I'm not sure overall, but we at least have a poll hypercall so that you can
yield the CPU until a specific event-channel is pending.

 -- Keir

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