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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 14:35:54 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver
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To: Julian Pidancet <julian.pidancet@citrix.com>
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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:14:05PM +0100, Julian Pidancet wrote:
> I have not heard about that, sorry.
> My test configuration has an i915-like Intel graphic card, and a nearly standard 2.6.32 linux kernel. No specific patching was required.

You're right.  I've checked it and the horrible kernel code is entirely
optional.  Sorry for the noise.