Re: [PATCH] Provide support for multiple frame buffers in Xen

[Ben Guthro <ben@guthro.net>]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1118 bytes --]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:48:57PM +0000, Robert Phillips wrote:
> > Support is provided for both shadow and hardware assisted paging (HAP)
> > modes. This code bookkeeps the set of video frame buffers (vram),
> > detects when the guest has modified any of those buffers and, upon
> request,
> > returns a bitmap of the modified pages.
> > This lets other software components re-paint the portions of the monitor
> > (or monitors) that have changed.
> > Each monitor has a frame buffer of some size at some position
> > in guest physical memory.
> > The set of frame buffers being tracked can change over time as monitors
> > are plugged and unplugged.
> >
> > This is the 9th version of this patch.
>
> Hi Robert, any news for v10 of this patch?
>

Robert has been asked to stop work on this, after so many submissions.
He has since been focusing on other projects - I don't think there has been
any additional effort put forth to get this upstream.

We (XenClient) maintain a patch queue, and will continue to carry this
patch, for now.

Ben

[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1610 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 126 bytes --]

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel