From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: More virtio users
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:07:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181621247.14818.246.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466E14A6.6020400@codemonkey.ws>
> The X fbdev driver is going to make supporting a new fb ioctl pretty
> fun. It currently doesn't even support the existing fb ioctls and has a
> strange abstraction layer.
>
> I reckon writing a new X driver from scratch (or based on something like
> the vnc X driver) would be easier in the long run.
Hrm... adding something to X fbdev should be fairly trivial... in fact,
it already have some sort of ShadowFB support which we could use to
track damage though it's less nice than using the damage extension I've
been told.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-12 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <466BA965.6050208@qumranet.com>
2007-06-10 8:06 ` [Xen-devel] More virtio users Muli Ben-Yehuda
[not found] ` <20070610080602.GD3738@rhun.haifa.ibm.com>
2007-06-10 8:09 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <466BB1AF.1000601@qumranet.com>
2007-06-12 22:07 ` [kvm-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-12 23:40 ` Caitlin Bestler
2007-06-10 8:13 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <1181463220.16428.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-06-10 8:16 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <466BB34B.9050105@qumranet.com>
2007-06-10 12:37 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <1181479060.16428.37.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-06-11 6:41 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-11 7:29 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <1181546953.16428.96.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-06-11 7:33 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-12 0:31 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <1181608287.16428.127.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-06-12 6:24 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-12 7:52 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <1181634747.6237.79.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-06-12 7:56 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-11 8:16 ` [Xen-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2007-06-11 8:19 ` Avi Kivity
2007-06-11 19:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-06-11 23:19 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-12 3:36 ` Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <466E14A6.6020400@codemonkey.ws>
2007-06-12 4:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
[not found] ` <1181603983.16428.100.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-06-12 0:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-11 3:04 ` [Xen-devel] " ron minnich
2007-06-12 22:01 ` [kvm-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-14 16:27 ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
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