Re: [PATCH RFC] Add SUPPORT.md

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> +
> +### Blkfront
> +
> +    Status, Linux: Supported
> +    Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external
> +    Status, Windows: Supported [XXX]
> +
> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV block protocol
> +
> +### Netfront
> +
> +    Status, Linux: Supported
> +    Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external
> +    States, Windows: Supported [XXX]
> +

The Windows PV drivers are a sub-project of Xen so I guess they should have the same level of support as Linux and FreeBSD frontends, but I'm unclear as to what 'Supported' means in context of guest-side code. E.g. if someone finds a way of crashing a network frontend using a specially crafted packet, does that mean that an XSA should be issued?

> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV networking protocol
> +
> +### Xen Framebuffer
> +
> +    Status, Linux (xen-fbfront): Supported
> +
> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV Framebuffer protocol
> +
> +[XXX FreeBSD? NetBSD?]
> +
> +### Xen Console
> +
> +    Status, Linux (hvc_xen): Supported
> +
> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV console protocol
> +
> +[XXX FreeBSD? NetBSD? Windows?]
> +

There is one for Windows too.

> +### Xen PV keyboard
> +
> +    Status, Linux (xen-kbdfront): Supported
> +
> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV keyboard protocol

There is one for Windows too. It's not been officially announced as it needed some fixes in QEMU allow frontends running in HVM guests to function correctly.

  Paul

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