[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Auto rebind PCI devices
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:43:32PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote: > The behaviour is: > * If the device specified in a domain config file is already bound to another > driver in dom0, fail creation with an error - as before. > * If the device specified in the config is not currently bound to a driver, > add it to the pciback driver and create the domain. That sounds very reasonable. > * If the device specificed in the config is bound *and* pci-force-rebind is > set, then unbind it from the existing driver and rebind it to pciback, then > start the domain. That sounds awkward. What's the use case you see in mind from stealing devices from a domain while it's running? For what it's worth, we'll be looking soon at creating IOMMU IO spaces for devices automatically when they're granted to domains. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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