From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Armbruster Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:47:09 +0100 Message-ID: <871w76ca0i.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> References: <871w76ejdg.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <87hcg2cyti.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <47BDD4BF.3000808@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47BDD4BF.3000808@goop.org> (Jeremy Fitzhardinge's message of "Thu\, 21 Feb 2008 11\:45\:03 -0800") Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@pol.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes: > Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Forgot to mention: This patch depends on >> >> Subject: [PATCH] xen: Make xen-blkfront write its protocol ABI to xenstore >> From: Markus Armbruster <> >> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:45:53 +0100 >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/6/132 >> >> Sorry! > > Sorry, I haven't pushed this upstream yet, since there didn't seem to > be any particular urgency. What's the dependency? > > J Here's the description again: Frontends are expected to write their protocol ABI to xenstore. Since the protocol ABI defaults to the backend's native ABI, things work fine without that as long as the frontend's native ABI is identical to the backend's native ABI. This is not the case for xen-blkfront running 32-on-64, because its ABI differs between 32 and 64 bit, and thus needs this fix. I can break the dependency by putting the same bug that is now in xen-blkfront into xen-fbfront and xen-kbdfront.