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Bug#600601: marked as done (Feature request -- USB passthrough for Xen PV)

Your message dated Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:29:48 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #600601,
regarding Feature request -- USB passthrough for Xen PV
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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.

Thanks,

Seth Green

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:54:52PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, closing the bug. It doesn't make sense to track generic upstream
enhancement bugs as Debian bugs.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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