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Re: updating Xen public headers
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 12:22:06PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> New interfaces for PV drivers:
>
> - Xen transcedent memory
> - USB IO
> - SCSI IO
>
> PCI IO improvements for PV domU:
>
> - PCI MSI support
> - PCI Express AER support
>
> New features:
>
> - xen honors flags to be placed into guest kernel available
> pte bits if enabled (for grant table)
> - support for 128 vcpus
> (old interface is still present and supports up to 32 vcpus)
> - PCI passthrough: new hypercalls to support SR-IOV
> - new hypercall to for physical cpu hotplugging
> - new hypercall for physical page offlining
> - fixes to compile with clang
> - machine check recovery mechanism
OK, looks fine. But we have to be carefull, when we'll start using
these features, that a dom0/domU with them can still work with a domU/dom0
that doesn't have them
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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