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Re: [Xen-devel] Read-only iomem page mapping





On 10/8/06 9:45 am, "Kieran Mansley" <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would like to give a domU some read-only access to an iomem page so
> that it can access some hardware registers directly in a relatively
> secure manner.  I can get read-write access using the
> DOM0_IOMEM_PERMISSION hypervisor op, and then ioremap at domU, but
> neither of these present the option of it being read only.
> 
> It should be straightforward, and possibly useful for others as well, to
> extend these to have that option, but though I'd check that there isn't
> some other way of achieving this already.

Adding read-only iomem and ioport rangesets would be nice.

 -- Keir



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