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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3 of 7] xen: allows more hypercalls from stubdoms



Stefano Stabellini, le Tue 13 Oct 2009 13:10:20 +0100, a écrit :
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Stefano Stabellini, le Tue 13 Oct 2009 13:00:09 +0100, a écrit :
> > > I agree with you that we need to redesign these hypercalls, but I am a
> > > fan of "doing one thing at a time" so I think we should decouple this
> > > goal from the other one of making passthrough work with stubdom for the
> > > moment.
> > > This way we could first let people test it as it is, fix some bugs that
> > > probably still affect the code, fix pci coldplug and add MSI-X support,
> > > then redesign the hypercalls.
> > 
> > For that you could just provide testers with this patch along with a
> > strong warning that it's not safe (from a security point of view).
> 
> In theory yes, but in practice not so many people read the list
> compared to the people that actually chase xen-unstable.

Would the latter report bugs they encounter?

Samuel

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