Re: [win-pv-devel] USB driver

[Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/16/2015 02:40 PM, Simon Martin wrote:
> Hello Ross,
>
> Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 4:13:52 PM, you wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > > Looking at the code here it looks like xc-windows should be replaced
> > > by the existing xenbus implementation, just port xc-vusb to this
> > > infrastructure.
> > Yes we are moving OpenXT away from these old pv drivers and towards the
> > upstream ones. xc-vusb will be ported to they new xenbus.
> > > vusb-daemon should interface directly with Xen in Dom0.
> > I am not sure exactly what you mean by this; can you clarify?
>  From what I can see vusb-daemon monitors USB events and should
> interact with the xen usbback driver to make the plugged/unplugged
> device available to the xc-vusb frontend driver.
>
> However Fabio Fantoni said that the Xen usb passthrough currently in
> development will also support hotplug, so not sure about this.
Your summary of what the vusb-daemon does is basically accurate. It 
monitors udev events, applies policy to the types of devices it sees and 
assigns (or not) devices to VMs. The assignment process is basically 
writing the xenstore nodes that tell the front-back pair to start the 
standard xenbus handshake. The usbback driver internally takes control 
of the assigned USB device's configurations and interfaces.
By hot-plugged I take it you mean hot-plugged into and out of VMs. If so 
then yes, this PV USB stack fully supports that.
--
Ross Philipson

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