From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: ravi kerur <rkerur@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Q on ioctl support in netfront/netback
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:14:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100216181454.GD21067@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dfc283f41002150754w333813a4g15969fe418cba102@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:54:02AM -0800, ravi kerur wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Registers are not in netback, they are h/w registers on NIC and the driver
> supports reads/writes via ioctl calls. Driver is in dom0 and application
> which reads/writes registers is run in domU.
You could use PCI passthrough. This way the NIC would be visible in your
DomU and you could fiddle with the registers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-16 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-15 2:23 Q on ioctl support in netfront/netback ravi kerur
2010-02-15 9:40 ` Paul Durrant
2010-02-15 15:54 ` ravi kerur
2010-02-16 18:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-02-17 16:19 ` ravi kerur
2010-02-17 16:27 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-02-17 16:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-02-17 20:00 ` ravi kerur
2010-02-17 3:26 ` Daniel Stodden
2010-02-17 15:44 ` ravi kerur
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