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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Xen frame buffer related
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:59:07 -0700
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Markus Armbruster wrote:
> The PVFB frontend supports the usual Linux framebuffer API for
> dynamically changing resolutions.  Check out xenfb_check_var() and
> xenfb_set_par().  Actual resolution change is initiated by user space.
>
> This is a fairly new feature, and I haven't merged it into pvops PVFB
> yet, because I don't want to rock that boat right now by modifying the
> patch (it's being reviewed and hopefully gets merged).
>   

Ingo has taken it into his tree, and I don't see anything blocking from 
going into 2.6.26 (you got the fb people to review it, right?).

If you do an incremental patch to add resizing then we can add that too.

BTW, does tablet mode work with the pvops patches?

    J