Re: [PATCH 0/5] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver updates

Jeremy Fitzhardinge [off-list ref] writes:

Markus Armbruster wrote:

quoted

This is an update to the Linux part of the Xen PVFB.  Linux Xen PVFB
is a pair of Xen para-virtual frontend device drivers:
drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c provides a framebuffer, and
drivers/input/xen-kbdfront provides keyboard and mouse.  Their
backends run in dom0 user space.

Parts in this patch series:

1. Enable Xen console by default in domU
2. Pointer z-axis (mouse wheel) support
3. Module aliases to support module autoloading
4. Zero unused bytes in events sent to backend
5. Dynamic mode support (screen resizing)

To the best of my knowledge, these patches are independent.  The last
one needs a bit of trivial merging to apply without the first one.  I
tested only 1, 1+2, 1+2+3, 1+2+3+4, and the complete series.  I'm
happy to split this into different parts if that helps.
  

Thanks Markus,

This looks good.  I'll stick it into my queue and feed it via Ingo
when I've given it a bit of a test.

Thanks!

Are we happy that the preferred console stuff is now the best
solution?  Does it solve your installer issues?

   J

Yes, the console stuff works nicely for me, and the installer is
happy.

Note that I went with the stupidest solution that could possibly work
there: have a global flag that gets set when the command line sets
consoles, and don't mess with the console then.  Mark McLoughlin
suggested a somewhat less stupid way, namely to mark consoles selected
on the command line with a flag.  Critical review invited!

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