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title="pvusb driver support (frontend/backend)"

contact="""
[port-xen](mailto:port-xen@NetBSD.org)
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mentors="""
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category="kernel"
difficulty="hard"
duration=""

description="""
Abstract: This project involves allowing USB devices on the dom0 to be
passed through to the domU. Individual USB devices can be passed
through dynamically. The domU needs to have a "frontend" driver that
can communicate with the backend driver which runs on the dom0 and
takes care of arbitrating and sometimes duplicating the requests.

Deliverables:

* Functioning backend and frontend drivers for dom0 and domU respectively.
* Make available USB device passthrough to PV and PVHVM domains.

Implementation:

Since the feature is under development in Xen, a frontend
implementation is advisable to start to engage with the project. Once
we have a functioning frontend on a non-NetBSD dom0, then we can
engage with the community to develop the backend.

See <http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/XenUSBPassthrough>
"""

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