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Re: [Xen-devel] fbfront


>>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at  4:57 AM, in message
<1185440254.3847.21.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell
<Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Tue, 2007- 07- 24 at 09:53 - 0600, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>> 
>> >>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:42 AM, in message
>> <C2CBDC86.12F42%keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>> > The framebuffer device exported by qemu-  dm seems to do the job perfectly
>> > well for HVM guests.
>> 
>> True. However, I was looking at supporting fbfront for a para- virtualized 
> sles9 kernel.
> 
> Take a look at the kernel at
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/kernels/sles9x.hg --  it contains the
> backport already.
> 
> The driver itself is portable back to 2.6.5 (essentially for PV on HVM
> reasons) so all that is needed is to add some of the compatibility stuff
> to your kernel, somewhat like the PVM- on- HVM compat layer although in
> the kernel above I've just added the necessary functions directly
> instead of using the compat stuff itself.

This is what I did over the last couple of days - I put some of the needed 
stuff (input_allocate_device()  etc) in the platform-compat.c file. I have not 
tested the code yet. 


Regards,

K. Y








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