Re: [Xen-devel] Dynamic-irq's in HVM domains

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:02:08PM +1100, James Harper wrote:
> > 
> > > Failing that, can I use physical IRQ's in a HVM domain to bind to?
> Eg
> > > nothing is using IRQ 26, can I use that with bind_pirq? The only
> docs I
> > > can find says 'Furthermore the calling domain must be sufficiently
> > > privileged.', but I'm not sure how privileged 'sufficiently' means
> in
> > > this context.
> > 
> > I doubt that will work, I expect privileged means either domain 0 or a
> > domain with a PCI passthrough device attached...
> > 
> 
> Hmmm... the problem I am facing is that I found 'class drivers' too
> limiting in Windows, so I am trying to go down the scsi 'miniport'
> route. There are 2 problems with that... the first is that due to a bug
> in the Windows miniport implementation, you have to assign a hardware
> i/o or memory resource to the driver. I have overcome that without too
> much pain though.
> 

Might be a stupid question, but isn't "storport" the recommended driver
nowadays.. instead of scsi miniport? 

-- Pasi

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