From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: Proposed patches for Linux 3.1 kernel. Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:04:16 -0700 Message-ID: <4E287830.8080905@goop.org> References: <20110721141715.GA731@dumpdata.com> <182250971.20110721164359@eikelenboom.it> <20110721175956.GA19609@dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110721175956.GA19609@dumpdata.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Sander Eikelenboom , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-users@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 07/21/2011 10:59 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > 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. Eh, I think its probably fairly justifyable for stable, since its completely self-contained and can't cause any regressions. Its akin to adding a new driver. Wouldn't want to argue it for a late -rc, but stable backport is probably OK. > 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. What git branch is that on? J