Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] tools, libxl: handle the iomem parameter with the memory_mapping hcall

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On ven, 2014-03-14 at 16:19 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 16:45 +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote:

> > > If "one" here is the user then I don't think so.
> > > 
> > Well, fact is "user", in this context, is who puts the embedded system
> > together into a product, rather than folks actually using such product,
> > so, I don't see that much unlikely.
> 
> I don't imagine even those folks are going to want to hack the
> hypervisor to change the guest address space layout, so I don't think
> you can assume they have full control, they will get whatever the layout
> for that version of Xen is. 
>
Don't want to speak for someone else, of course. For what I've seen, no,
they're not going to hack Xen, they're going to stick to a specific
version as long as possible.

For different reasons, that's not much different from what happens in
way less embedded contexts, I think. :-)

> They do control the hypervisor version so I
> suppose they control in that sense.
> 
Indeed that was the control I meant.

Dario

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