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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Proposed patches for Linux 3.1 kernel.
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:59:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110721175956.GA19609@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <182250971.20110721164359@eikelenboom.it>

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 04:43:59PM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Thursday, July 21, 2011, 4:17:15 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > The 3.0 is suppose to be released today, or perhaps tomorrow.
> 
> > For 3.1 kernel we have this long list of features and bug-fixes that we are going
> > to ask Linus to pick up:
> 
> >  - VGA text support. Since Xen is the first payload on the bootloader it gets the
> >    screen information - now with this patch we can copy it from the hypervisor
> >    and enjoy 80x25 old-school text output.
> 
> I assume this one will be proposed for 3.0.1 stable as well ?

Sadly no - it is considered a feature - and those (as I understand, maybe I am
incorrect?) don't go on the stable wagon.

The vga patch is self-contained in here: http://darnok.org/xen/vga.patch if you would
like to patch your 3.0 kernel. Keep in mind - that you can still run stock 3.0 - with Xorg,
frame-buffer support (KMS), or with serial output.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-21 14:17 Proposed patches for Linux 3.1 kernel Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-21 14:43 ` [Xen-devel] " Sander Eikelenboom
2011-07-21 17:59   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-07-21 19:04     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-07-22  3:30       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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