From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Proposed patches for Linux 3.1 kernel. Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:59:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20110721175956.GA19609@dumpdata.com> References: <20110721141715.GA731@dumpdata.com> <182250971.20110721164359@eikelenboom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <182250971.20110721164359@eikelenboom.it> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Sander Eikelenboom Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-users@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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.