Re: Fwd: [Xen-devel] IOMMU faults

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 05:30:57PM +0200, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder, how susceptible is NetBSD's XEN implementation to this?
> http://secunia.com/advisories/45622/
> 
> See also:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01106.html
> http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/84e3706df07a

This problem is in the Xen kernel itself and is not related to
NetBSD. But if the dom0 is running NetBSD, as PCI pass-through is not
supported for affected Xen versions, the problem cannot be triggered
because the iommu won't be used.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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