From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver updates Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:09:14 +0100 Message-ID: <4833E6BA.3060408@goop.org> References: <87d4ngm4s4.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: Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:56426 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753765AbYEUJJp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 05:09:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d4ngm4s4.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Markus Armbruster Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Pat Campbell Markus Armbruster wrote: > This is an update to the Linux part of the Xen PVFB. Linux Xen PVFB > is a pair of Xen para-virtual frontend device drivers: > drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c provides a framebuffer, and > drivers/input/xen-kbdfront provides keyboard and mouse. Their > backends run in dom0 user space. > > Parts in this patch series: > > 1. Enable Xen console by default in domU > 2. Pointer z-axis (mouse wheel) support > 3. Module aliases to support module autoloading > 4. Zero unused bytes in events sent to backend > 5. Dynamic mode support (screen resizing) > > To the best of my knowledge, these patches are independent. The last > one needs a bit of trivial merging to apply without the first one. I > tested only 1, 1+2, 1+2+3, 1+2+3+4, and the complete series. I'm > happy to split this into different parts if that helps. > Thanks Markus, This looks good. I'll stick it into my queue and feed it via Ingo when I've given it a bit of a test. Are we happy that the preferred console stuff is now the best solution? Does it solve your installer issues? J