Passthrough a device described in the Device Tree to a guest ============================================================ The example will use the secondary network card for the midway server. 1) Mark the device to let Xen know the device will be used for passthrough. This is done in the device tree node describing the device by adding the property "xen,passthrough". The command to do it in U-Boot is: fdt set /soc/ethernet@fff51000 xen,passthrough 2) Create a partial device tree describing the device. The IRQ are mapped 1:1 to the guest (i.e VIRQ == IRQ). For MMIO, you will have to find a hole in the guest memory layout (see xen/include/public/arch-arm.h, note that the layout is not stable and can change between versions of Xen). /dts-v1/; / { /* #*cells are here to keep DTC happy */ #address-cells = <2>; #size-cells = <2>; aliases { net = &mac0; }; passthrough { compatible = "simple-bus"; ranges; #address-cells = <2>; #size-cells = <2>; mac0: ethernet@10000000 { compatible = "calxeda,hb-xgmac"; reg = <0 0x10000000 0 0x1000>; interrupts = <0 80 4 0 81 4 0 82 4>; }; }; }; Note: * The interrupt-parent property will be added by the toolstack in the root node; * The following properties are mandatory with the /passthrough node: - compatible: It should always contain "simple-bus" - ranges - #address-cells - #size-cells * See http://www.devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage for more information about device tree. 3) Compile the partial guest device with dtc (Device Tree Compiler). For our purpose, the compiled file will be called guest-midway.dtb and placed in /root in DOM0. 3) Add the following options in the guest configuration file: device_tree = "/root/guest-midway.dtb" dtdev = [ "/soc/ethernet@fff51000" ] irqs = [ 112, 113, 114 ] iomem = [ "0xfff51,1@0x10000" ]