Re: [GIT PULL] pv/fbfront

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

On 03/01/2010 07:01 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Hey Jeremy,
>
> Please pull from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git pv/fbfront
>
> It has fixes that made it in v2.6.33 for the Xen Frame buffer:
>
>   xen pvfb: Inhibit VM_IO flag to be set on vmalloc-ed framebuffers.
>   fb-defio: Inhibit VM_IO flag to be set on vmalloc-ed framebuffers.
>   fb-defio: If FBINFO_VIRTFB is defined, do not set VM_IO flag.
>
>   drivers/video/broadsheetfb.c |    2 +-
>   drivers/video/fb_defio.c     |    4 +++-
>   drivers/video/hecubafb.c     |    2 +-
>   drivers/video/metronomefb.c  |    2 +-
>   drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c  |    2 +-
>   include/linux/fb.h           |    1 +
>   6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Or perhaps we should ask Greg KH to put those fixes on his stable tree
> and then you would merge them from him?
>    

I've merged it anyway.  I'm not sure they're stable material because the 
bug they fix only manifests when there's dom0 support in the kernel, I 
think.  Does plain 2.6.32 show problems with pvfb?

BTW, I can't get absolute (tablet) mode working with pvfb any more.  
Have you noticed that?

     J