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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: "FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de" <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>,
	"linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
	"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] video: Add Hyper-V Synthetic Video Frame Buffer Driver
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:40:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130219184009.GA21783@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ca36b5d55c64ac6b8854c4f216ef8e5@DFM-TK5MBX15-06.exchange.corp.microsoft.com>

On Tue, Feb 19, Haiyang Zhang wrote:

> The emulated video device is a separate device from the synthetic video.
> The synthetic driver can only take control of the synthetic video, but not
> the emulated video.

Please add this to the comment above.

> Actually, we already have a similar mechanism in ata/ata_piix.c to disable
> emulated IDE drive on Hyper-V, so it won't conflict with the synthetic drive.

I havent read the vesafb code, but I think it can kind of give up the
hardware, something ata_piix can not do.

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-19 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-15 18:48 [PATCH RFC] video: Add Hyper-V Synthetic Video Frame Buffer Driver Haiyang Zhang
2013-02-17 14:32 ` Olaf Hering
2013-02-17 19:10   ` Haiyang Zhang
2013-02-18 10:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-02-18 16:09   ` Haiyang Zhang
2013-02-19 16:51 ` Olaf Hering
2013-02-19 17:48   ` Haiyang Zhang
2013-02-19 18:40     ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2013-02-19 19:04       ` Haiyang Zhang
2013-02-21 15:53         ` Olaf Hering
2013-02-22  4:11           ` Haiyang Zhang
2013-02-28 15:16 ` Olaf Hering
2013-02-28 17:56   ` Haiyang Zhang

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