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Re: [Xen-devel] Q on ioctl support in netfront/netback



On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:54:02AM -0800, ravi kerur wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> Registers are not in netback, they are h/w registers on NIC and the driver
> supports reads/writes via ioctl calls. Driver is in dom0 and application
> which reads/writes registers is run in domU.

You could use PCI passthrough. This way the NIC would be visible in your
DomU and you could fiddle with the registers.

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