From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:33:05 -0800 Message-ID: <47BDFC21.6010604@goop.org> References: <871w76ejdg.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <87hcg2cyti.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <47BDD4BF.3000808@goop.org> <871w76ca0i.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <871w76ca0i.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Markus Armbruster 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 List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Markus Armbruster wrote: > 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. > Right, I see. The dependency is on the protocols.h changes. J