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Re: [Xen-devel] Will Xen support PCI add-on card for serial ports?


  • To: "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Neo Jia" <neojia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:57:29 -0700
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Keir,

Thanks a lot! Could you give an Xen command line example?

BTW, do you know which PCI card can be supported by Xen?

Thanks,
Neo

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not within Xen itself, although they can be driven by dom0 no problem.
> Actually some PCI cards can even be driven by Xen, if you work out where the
> BIOS allocates the I/O port resource by default. Then you can manually
> configure the I/O port base and IRQ on the Xen command line.
>
>  -- Keir
>
> On 11/7/08 10:03, "Neo Jia" <neojia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> It looks that Xen currently only support ISA serial port, which is onboard.
>>
>> Is there any plan to support the PCI serial port?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neo
>
>
>



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