From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PV framebuffer Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:32:47 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87zmavmr18.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87zmavmr18.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Markus Armbruster Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, sos22@srcf.ucam.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 13/11/06 13:09, "Markus Armbruster" wrote: >> We're waiting to hear from lanana before switching to xvc. I re-submitted >> the allocation request two weeks ago (31st October). I haven't heard >> anything yet. I suppose since static device nodes in /dev are rare these >> days (since everyone moved to udev) we can just squat on some device number >> for the time being, or settle for requesting a dynamic one at boot time and >> require use of udev for anyone who cares about the device node. We already >> settled for that with /dev/xen/evtchn, for example. > > What do you want me to do here for the short term? Drop the patch > hunk and let you sort it out? It doesn't seem to have much to do with the paravirt fb patch, so probably it should be dropped. -- Keir