Re: [PATCH] Add grant references for fbfront/kbdfront

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:32:13PM -0500, Daniel De Graaf wrote:
> On 01/07/2011 02:21 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:55:24PM -0500, Daniel De Graaf wrote:
> >> On 01/07/2011 11:51 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:12:56AM -0500, dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov wrote:
> >>>> This series fixes the interface for the fbfront and kbdfront devices,
> >>>> which were storing MFNs in xenstore rather than creating grant table
> >>>> entries. To maintain backwards compatibility, a different xenstore key
> >>>> is used (page-gref instead of page-ref) and the use of grants must be
> >>>> requested for fbfront (because two levels of page references are
> >>>> embedded within the shared page). This makes it possible to move a
> >>>> display server out of dom0 without giving the display domain full
> >>>> access to other domain's memory.
> >>>
> >>> So these patches go on top of  xen/stable-2.6.32 tree right?
> >>>
> >>
> >> They apply to either 2.6.32 or 2.6.37; I have tested them on both.
> > 
> > What is the 2.6.37 branch you applied it to? Can you point me to the
> > git tree? Or a set of patches that need to be applied on top of ftp.kernel.org
> > virgin 2.6.37?
> > 
> 
> It should apply on top of any 2.6.37 tree; I sent the patches from a

They do. The mail file I had with your name had patches for 2.6.32 which
did not apply on 2.6.37.

Sorry about the noise.