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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ioemu: move xenfb frontend to its own file

To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ioemu: move xenfb frontend to its own file
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:44:11 +0100
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On 16/6/08 17:40, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:32:12PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> ioemu: move xenfb frontend to its own file, since it does not really
>> belong to hw/, but to /, like sdl.c and vnc.c.
> 
> Yes, it does belong in hw/ because it is providing a hardware backend
> impl - it just happens to be virtual hardware.

Doesn't hw/ exclusively contain device models, which the xenfb frontend is
not?

 -- Keir



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