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RE: [Xen-devel] Dynamic-irq's in HVM domains

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Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Dynamic-irq's in HVM domains
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:29:43 +1100
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I'm really desperate for an answer to this question...

Failing that, can I use physical IRQ's in a HVM domain to bind to? Eg
nothing is using IRQ 26, can I use that with bind_pirq? The only docs I
can find says 'Furthermore the calling domain must be sufficiently
privileged.', but I'm not sure how privileged 'sufficiently' means in
this context.

Thanks

James

> 
> 'cat /proc/interrupts' in a Linux PV domain shows interrupts starting
at
> 256 and labelled as 'Dynamic-irq'. Are these available in a HVM
domain,
> eg under Windows?
> 

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