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Re: [Xen-devel] xl and GFX passthrough

To: Sergey Tovpeko <tsv.devel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xl and GFX passthrough
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:24:42 +0000
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On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:05 +0000, Sergey Tovpeko wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think gfx_passthrough is actually a boolean, right? In that case it
> > should be declared as "bool" in the idl.
> >   
> 
> Well, the integer value of gfx_passthru had meaning in 2009, I suspect. 
> It differentiated between IGD adapter and discrete adapter.
> http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/PATCH-0-2-v2-graphics-passthrough-with-VT-d-td2534811.html
> 
> At now, I didn't notice integer meaning of this variable in the code. I 
> changed it to bool in the new patch.

I just noticed that this appears to have been fixed by Daniel De Graf
just a few days ago, see 22711:4f6fee3a456e, which may only be in the
staging tree at http://xenbits.xen.org/staging/xen-unstable.hg since we
are waiting for a test pass.

Ian.


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