Re: [PATCH 2/4] stubdom: remove pciutils

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Beulich, le mer. 19 août 2026 08:36:14 +0200, a ecrit:
> On 18.08.2026 23:40, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Jan Beulich, le mar. 18 août 2026 08:03:51 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> On 17.08.2026 18:37, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >>> Juergen Gross, le lun. 17 août 2026 10:24:02 +0200, a ecrit:
> >>>> On 17.08.26 09:48, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >>>>> Juergen Gross, le lun. 17 août 2026 09:18:41 +0200, a ecrit:
> >>>>>> There is no user of libpci left in stubdoms.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Remove libpci from the stubdom build system.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Wouldn't it be useful to keep this for anybody who would want to drive a
> >>>>> PCI card from a stubdomain?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I mean, in the zlib case, it's really a mere question of build & link,
> >>>>> so we don't need to ship it, people can do it themselves easily like for
> >>>>> any other library.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But here there is actual porting work, that we'd better not lose but
> >>>>> keep shipping.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is all still available via git.
> >>>
> >>> No, it is not really.
> >>
> >> Question is - does this matter in the first place? If someone wanted to
> >> drive e.g. a USB device, would we include USB code?
> > 
> > Why not? I mean, better centralize the maintenance of such code instead
> > of possibly several people having to maintain their own USB layer each.
> 
> Well, but where would you stop then?

Wherever Xen stops defining a virtualization interface for it.

Samuel