On 08/31/2017 12:03 PM, Paul Durrant wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: George Dunlap [mailto:george.dun...@citrix.com] >> Sent: 31 August 2017 11:56 >> To: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com>; xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org >> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com>; Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>; >> Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; Jan Beulich >> <jbeul...@suse.com>; Tim (Xen.org) <t...@xen.org>; Dario Faggioli >> <dario.faggi...@citrix.com>; Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.leng...@zentific.com>; >> Roger Pau Monne <roger....@citrix.com>; Stefano Stabellini >> <sstabell...@kernel.org>; Anthony Perard <anthony.per...@citrix.com>; >> Konrad Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Add SUPPORT.md >> >> On 08/31/2017 11:46 AM, Paul Durrant wrote: >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> + >>>> +### Blkfront >>>> + >>>> + Status, Linux: Supported >>>> + Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external >>>> + Status, Windows: Supported [XXX] >>>> + >>>> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV block protocol >>>> + >>>> +### Netfront >>>> + >>>> + Status, Linux: Supported >>>> + Status, FreeBSD: Supported, Security support external >>>> + States, Windows: Supported [XXX] >>>> + >>> >>> The Windows PV drivers are a sub-project of Xen so I guess they should >> have the same level of support as Linux and FreeBSD frontends, but I'm >> unclear as to what 'Supported' means in context of guest-side code. E.g. if >> someone finds a way of crashing a network frontend using a specially crafted >> packet, does that mean that an XSA should be issued? >> >> I would think so, yes. >> >>>> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV networking protocol >>>> + >>>> +### Xen Framebuffer >>>> + >>>> + Status, Linux (xen-fbfront): Supported >>>> + >>>> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV Framebuffer protocol >>>> + >>>> +[XXX FreeBSD? NetBSD?] >>>> + >>>> +### Xen Console >>>> + >>>> + Status, Linux (hvc_xen): Supported >>>> + >>>> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV console protocol >>>> + >>>> +[XXX FreeBSD? NetBSD? Windows?] >>>> + >>> >>> There is one for Windows too. >> >> OK, I'll add that in. >> >>>> +### Xen PV keyboard >>>> + >>>> + Status, Linux (xen-kbdfront): Supported >>>> + >>>> +Guest-side driver capable of speaking the Xen PV keyboard protocol >>> >>> There is one for Windows too. It's not been officially announced as it >> needed some fixes in QEMU allow frontends running in HVM guests to >> function correctly. >> >> OK; would you describe its expected reliability in 4.10 as closer to >> "Here be dragons", or "Quirky"? > > I've lost track of the state of the QEMU patches but, if they go in, then it > should be completely reliable. If not then it will be non-functional... but > the same would be true of the Linux frontend running in an HVM guest. (The > patches fix a bug where xenvkbd and xenfb are interdependent... but the xenfb > backend is only created in the xenpv machine type).
OK -- well we should state here the status of the version(s) of qemu that will ship in the xen release tarball; and we if the Linux frontend is broken under HVM, we should specify that as well. -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
