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Re: [Xen-devel] fbfront

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] fbfront
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:57:43 +0100
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On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:42 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> The framebuffer device exported by qemu-dm seems to do the job perfectly
> well for HVM guests.

For PV guests the backport is hampered by zap_page_range() not being
exported on any released kernels and being too big and complex for a
sane compat layer.

Someone from RH suggested ages ago that fbfront could be changed to use
unmap_mapping_range() instead but I haven't heard anything more since.

Ian.



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