Bug#600601: Feature request -- USB passthrough for Xen PV
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 21:48 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> reassign 600601 src:linux
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:56:05PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > tags 600601 +upstream
> > thanks
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:13 -0400, Seth Green wrote:
> > > Package: linux-image-xen-amd64
> > > Version: 2.6.32+28
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > It would be great if the Xennified kernel included the PVUSB code from
> > > Xen so that USB devices could be passed through to DomU's.
> >
> > PVUSB support has not been ported to the PVOPS kernel by Xen upstream,
> > primarily because AFAIK nobody has volunteered to do the required work
> > to forward port the support from the classic Xen kernels. I'm afraid you
> > will need to work with Xen upstream to do so before such feature can be
> > considered for the Debian kernels.
>
> This still doesn't seem to be upstream:
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_USB_Passthrough
Correct, seems nobody is interested enough in the feature to do the
necessary work.
George is tracking it as an item for upstream 4.4 release[0] but AFAIK
this doesn't imply that there is anybody working on it.
I'm not sure ow worthwhile it is to track this as a Debian bug.
Ian.
[0] Latest update
http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-08/msg00821.html
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