From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Steve Ofsthun <sofsthun@virtualiron.com>,
Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>,
cgriffin@novell.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
Subject: Re: RE: GPL Win PV driver issues
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:50:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071215165024.GA8544@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712150409.52888.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:09:50AM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > The PV netfront driver should scan the PCI bus for another NIC with the
> > same MAC and claim those resources?
>
> Well, presumably, it can get more useful information from Xen with appropriate
> tools support: e.g. query out what PCI devices have PV counterparts so it
> knows what it *can* grab. Then the admin in the domU can be responsible for
> the decision of which PV devices to enable?
I would have suggested the NIC driver just grab all ne2k & rtl8139 nics, but
actually since Dom0 knows exactly what emulated NIC correspond to the PV
nic it could trivially write this into XenStore. Then as you suggest the
PV driver can look this up directly rather than having to use hueristics
Dan.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-15 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 21:05 GPL Win PV driver issues Andy Grover
2007-12-14 0:13 ` James Harper
2007-12-14 19:21 ` Steve Ofsthun
2007-12-14 19:36 ` Luciano Rocha
2007-12-14 19:42 ` Stefan de Konink
2007-12-14 20:16 ` Luciano Rocha
2007-12-14 22:19 ` James Harper
2007-12-14 20:40 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2007-12-14 21:51 ` Steve Ofsthun
2007-12-15 4:09 ` Mark Williamson
2007-12-15 16:50 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2007-12-15 16:52 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2007-12-16 5:59 ` James Harper
2007-12-14 22:21 ` James Harper
2007-12-14 22:37 ` Andy Grover
2007-12-14 22:53 ` James Harper
2007-12-14 22:17 ` James Harper
2008-01-01 19:06 ` Brian Wolfe
2008-01-02 2:45 ` James Harper
2008-01-02 3:32 ` Brian Wolfe
2008-01-02 4:20 ` James Harper
2008-01-02 7:24 ` Brian Wolfe
2008-01-02 8:44 ` James Harper
2008-01-20 10:19 ` Stephan Seitz
2008-01-20 10:29 ` James Harper
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