[PATCH] SUPPORT.md: Multiple IOREQ servers are experimental

* [PATCH] SUPPORT.md: Multiple IOREQ servers are experimental
@ 2018-03-14 11:05 George Dunlap
  2018-03-14 11:16 ` Paul Durrant
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: George Dunlap @ 2018-03-14 11:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel
  Cc: Stefano Stabellini, Wei Liu, Andrew Cooper, Tim Deegan,
	George Dunlap, Julien Grall, Paul Durrant, Jan Beulich,
	Ian Jackson

The code has been there in the hypervisor for several releases, but
there is no toolstack support.

While we're here delete some trailing whitespace.

Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
---
This is a backport candidate to 4.10.

Wasn't clear exactly what section to put it in, but I figured it had
to do with virtual hardware and it was in the hypervisor, so this was
the best place.

CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
CC: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
CC: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
---
 SUPPORT.md | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
index 9ac1a40036..ddcdfab5ad 100644
--- a/SUPPORT.md
+++ b/SUPPORT.md
@@ -599,6 +599,16 @@ However, this feature can still confer significant security benefit
 when used to remove drivers and backends from domain 0
 (i.e., Driver Domains).
 
+### x86/Multiple IOREQ servers
+
+	Status: Experimental
+
+An IOREQ server provides emulated devices to HVM and PVH guests.
+QEMU is normally the only IOREQ server,
+but Xen has support for multiple IOREQ servers.
+This allows for custom or proprietary device emulators
+to be used in addition to QEMU.
+
 ### ARM/Non-PCI device passthrough
 
     Status: Supported, not security supported
@@ -639,7 +649,7 @@ Note that other devices are available but not security supported.
 
     Status, piix3 ide: Supported
     Status, ahci: Supported
-	
+
 See the section **Blkback** for image formats supported by QEMU.
 
 ### x86/Emulated graphics (QEMU):
-- 
2.16.2


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