Has there been any progress, further thoughts, or sudden insights about this? I was hoping to run Xen on 6.0, but reading through the thread it doesn't seem likely.
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:50:02AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
I suspect most users of /dev/mem wants non-RAM ressources, and so wants machine addresses. I can't think of a use case that would want to access regular RAM through /dev/mem
In fact, that really should not be allowed at all at securelevel > 0.
Here's a somewhat uninformed idea: Could there be a separate way of addressing what X needs to see, call it /dev/devicemem say, that avoids having to mix the two address spaces under the same device?
MAgnus