From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753599AbYJTXZ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:25:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751789AbYJTXZS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:25:18 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:46661 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751502AbYJTXZR (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:25:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] patches for a network-based hvc backend (s390) From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Hendrik Brueckner Cc: Linux PPC devel , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Rusty Russell , "Ryan S. Arnold" , LKML , Christian Borntraeger , Heiko Carstens , Martin Schwidefsky In-Reply-To: <20081014091247.433079967@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20081014091247.433079967@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:23:37 +1100 Message-Id: <1224545017.7654.188.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:12 +0200, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > Hello, > > I work on a network-based hvc console backend for s390 that allows > to get "full-screen" terminal access to z/VM guest machines. > The solution consists of a HVC backend that provides the terminal interface; > and a tool to connect to the terminal via a z/VM specific communication > protocol. .../... Hi ! What's the status with that patch serie ? Is this 2.6.28 material ? Alan, are you ok with those ? Hendrik, have there been any respin other than v2 of patch 4/5 ? I can merge it via powerpc but it's getting late in the merge window... Cheers, Ben.