Bug#600601: Feature request -- USB passthrough for Xen PV

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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

Cheers,
        Moritz