Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 21:22 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:10AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: [...] BTW, should I port my lintian fixes over from trunk? Yes please. Done. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell How much of their influence on you is a result of your influence on them? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1283157940.6575.1.ca...@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:10AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: [...] BTW, should I port my lintian fixes over from trunk? Yes please. I guess its mostly a manual process? diff and patch should take you most of the way. But no, merging or cherry-picking with svn is not so automatic. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 03:59 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:20 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:54 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ouch, I didn't think to try that combo! I don't suppose you managed to catch the stack anywhere? I'll try and repro today. So the fix is pretty simple (and the omission pretty embarrassing) but I guess you'd prefer me to wait until after 2.6.32-21 before I update the patches? [...] I'm not going to restart the build now, but we can reenable them in -22. Sure. Feel free to do that now. I have just done this. I used your name for the last line of the new stanza in debian/changelog, hope that was the right thing to do. BTW, should I port my lintian fixes over from trunk? I guess its mostly a manual process? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Tool - Mantra Staff meeting in the conference room in %d minutes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282902670.12544.3572.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:20 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:54 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ouch, I didn't think to try that combo! I don't suppose you managed to catch the stack anywhere? I'll try and repro today. So the fix is pretty simple (and the omission pretty embarrassing) but I guess you'd prefer me to wait until after 2.6.32-21 before I update the patches? [...] I'm not going to restart the build now, but we can reenable them in -22. Sure. Feel free to do that now. Relatedly, why did you set CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI=y and not =m? It's generally preferable to enable features as modules where possible so they don't waste memory for users that don't need them. I did set it =m at first but there is no explicit dependency between e.g. net-blkfront and the platform-pci driver so things like mkinitramfs would not pick it up automatically without modifications to the userspace stuff. The module is ~1.7k so I figured building it in was a worthwhile trade-off in this case. (actually, I think this size includes init text +data etc, looking at objdump -h the final size looks to be .text 0xc0 + .data 0xe0 + .bss 0x20 + .rodata 0x168 = ~0.8k total) OK, that's not too bad. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:11 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell.. These drivers have also been backported to the regular 2.6.32 flavour for Squeeze so you won't need the Xen flavour to get this functionality. Oh nice! Thanks. Btw which kernel release in squeeze/testing adds these pv-on-hvm drivers? It will be in 2.6.32-21 which AIUI will be uploaded to Sid shortly. Sorry, it was misleading of me to suggest it was already in Squeeze. Sadly not. I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ouch, I didn't think to try that combo! I don't suppose you managed to catch the stack anywhere? I'll try and repro today. Ian. -- Ian Campbell abuse me. I'm so lame I sent a bug report to debian-devel-changes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:11 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell.. These drivers have also been backported to the regular 2.6.32 flavour for Squeeze so you won't need the Xen flavour to get this functionality. Oh nice! Thanks. Btw which kernel release in squeeze/testing adds these pv-on-hvm drivers? It will be in 2.6.32-21 which AIUI will be uploaded to Sid shortly. Sorry, it was misleading of me to suggest it was already in Squeeze. Sadly not. I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ben. Can't this then be added as a Xen only patch? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c74b02d.70...@goirand.fr
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ouch, I didn't think to try that combo! I don't suppose you managed to catch the stack anywhere? I'll try and repro today. So the fix is pretty simple (and the omission pretty embarrassing) but I guess you'd prefer me to wait until after 2.6.32-21 before I update the patches? diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c index 50fbf65..37d30e4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c @@ -1220,6 +1220,9 @@ static int init_hvm_pv_info(int *major, int *minor) u64 pfn; base = xen_cpuid_base(); + if (!base) + return -EINVAL; + cpuid(base + 1, eax, ebx, ecx, edx); *major = eax 16; -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: I - Days Of North Winds I'm not a level-headed person...-- Bruce Perens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282726455.12544.3174.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:54 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ouch, I didn't think to try that combo! I don't suppose you managed to catch the stack anywhere? I'll try and repro today. So the fix is pretty simple (and the omission pretty embarrassing) but I guess you'd prefer me to wait until after 2.6.32-21 before I update the patches? [...] I'm not going to restart the build now, but we can reenable them in -22. Relatedly, why did you set CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI=y and not =m? It's generally preferable to enable features as modules where possible so they don't waste memory for users that don't need them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:54 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ouch, I didn't think to try that combo! I don't suppose you managed to catch the stack anywhere? I'll try and repro today. So the fix is pretty simple (and the omission pretty embarrassing) but I guess you'd prefer me to wait until after 2.6.32-21 before I update the patches? [...] I'm not going to restart the build now, but we can reenable them in -22. Sure. Relatedly, why did you set CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI=y and not =m? It's generally preferable to enable features as modules where possible so they don't waste memory for users that don't need them. I did set it =m at first but there is no explicit dependency between e.g. net-blkfront and the platform-pci driver so things like mkinitramfs would not pick it up automatically without modifications to the userspace stuff. The module is ~1.7k so I figured building it in was a worthwhile trade-off in this case. (actually, I think this size includes init text +data etc, looking at objdump -h the final size looks to be .text 0xc0 + .data 0xe0 + .bss 0x20 + .rodata 0x168 = ~0.8k total) Ian. -- Ian Campbell Talking about a piece of movie dialogue: Let's have some new cliches. -Samuel Goldwyn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282738806.12544.3191.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:11 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell.. These drivers have also been backported to the regular 2.6.32 flavour for Squeeze so you won't need the Xen flavour to get this functionality. Oh nice! Thanks. Btw which kernel release in squeeze/testing adds these pv-on-hvm drivers? It will be in 2.6.32-21 which AIUI will be uploaded to Sid shortly. Sorry, it was misleading of me to suggest it was already in Squeeze. Sadly not. I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell.. These drivers have also been backported to the regular 2.6.32 flavour for Squeeze so you won't need the Xen flavour to get this functionality. Oh nice! Thanks. Btw which kernel release in squeeze/testing adds these pv-on-hvm drivers? -- Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100823141131.gi2...@reaktio.net
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:11 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell.. These drivers have also been backported to the regular 2.6.32 flavour for Squeeze so you won't need the Xen flavour to get this functionality. Oh nice! Thanks. Btw which kernel release in squeeze/testing adds these pv-on-hvm drivers? It will be in 2.6.32-21 which AIUI will be uploaded to Sid shortly. Sorry, it was misleading of me to suggest it was already in Squeeze. -- Ian Campbell Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. -- Thomas Tusser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282573339.12544.790.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell.. Allowing fully virtualized (Xen HVM) guests use paravirtualized disk/net devices and perform much better. Those drivers are also merged to upstream kernel.org 2.6.36. -- Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100821205246.gy2...@reaktio.net
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell.. These drivers have also been backported to the regular 2.6.32 flavour for Squeeze so you won't need the Xen flavour to get this functionality. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Pilfering Treasury property is paticularly dangerous: big thieves are ruthless in punishing little thieves. -- Diogenes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell.. These drivers have also been backported to the regular 2.6.32 flavour for Squeeze so you won't need the Xen flavour to get this functionality. Oh nice! Thanks. -- Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100821221620.gz2...@reaktio.net
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:38 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Bastian Blank wrote: It would be a terrible shame if Squeeze did not have support for the modern graphics subsystem when running Xen. Well. All the intel cards seems to work. Bastian I can confirm that issues that has been reported to the xen-devel list were only with specific cards like ATI and another brand that I cannot recall. I think it's Nvidia (using Nouveau rather than the proprietary driver, the latter stands no chance of working). These cards drivers are playing too much with memory mapping, which creates issues. It's not too much -- their behaviour is reasonable but just needs extra care under Xen. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Iron Maiden - Dream Of Mirrors Safety Third. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282293526.3170.5293.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:13 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:32:58PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: However not this part. Only small commits are fixes and I consider the rest as hacks. Which commits in particular? As documented: bcf16b6b4f34fb40a7aaf637947c7d3bce0be671, a merge commit. Have you raised your concerns upstream? Which upstream? I meant the upstream author of the commits in question. (or something equivalent). While these are clearly not suitable for upstream they are correct as far as they go. Excluding them from the xen flavour of the kernel seems a bit extreme. Someone have to explain them to the release team. As they are clearly not even remotely suitable for upstream, I'm not going to stretch the own rules further. I'm not sure these commits are measurably any different in the context of featureset=xen than pvops.patch already is but ultimately it is your call so I won't push it. It would be a terrible shame if Squeeze did not have support for the modern graphics subsystem when running Xen. Well. All the intel cards seems to work. That's good. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Iron Maiden - Dream Of Mirrors Domestic happiness and faithful friends. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282293542.3170.5295.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:32:58PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: However not this part. Only small commits are fixes and I consider the rest as hacks. Which commits in particular? As documented: bcf16b6b4f34fb40a7aaf637947c7d3bce0be671, a merge commit. Have you raised your concerns upstream? Which upstream? The DRM people are upstream for AGP. I doubt that they even got there. (or something equivalent). While these are clearly not suitable for upstream they are correct as far as they go. Excluding them from the xen flavour of the kernel seems a bit extreme. Someone have to explain them to the release team. As they are clearly not even remotely suitable for upstream, I'm not going to stretch the own rules further. It would be a terrible shame if Squeeze did not have support for the modern graphics subsystem when running Xen. Well. All the intel cards seems to work. Bastian -- But Captain -- the engines can't take this much longer! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100819111334.gc9...@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
Bastian Blank wrote: It would be a terrible shame if Squeeze did not have support for the modern graphics subsystem when running Xen. Well. All the intel cards seems to work. Bastian I can confirm that issues that has been reported to the xen-devel list were only with specific cards like ATI and another brand that I cannot recall. These cards drivers are playing too much with memory mapping, which creates issues. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c6e06cc.70...@debian.org
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: A lot of graphics related fixes are now merged, and they make most of the graphics adapters (and KMS modesetting) work ok. However not this part. Only small commits are fixes and I consider the rest as hacks. Which commits in particular? Have you raised your concerns upstream? There are a few commits in the referenced branch which are tagged as needing to be revisited before going upstream, they are generally of the form - do_thing(ADDR); + if (xen_domain()) + do_thing(translate(ADDR)); + else + do_thing(ADDR) (or something equivalent). While these are clearly not suitable for upstream they are correct as far as they go. Excluding them from the xen flavour of the kernel seems a bit extreme. It would be a terrible shame if Squeeze did not have support for the modern graphics subsystem when running Xen. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Black Sabbath - Lonely Is The Word Sure he's sharp as a razor ... he's a two-dimensional pinhead! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282149178.3170.1240.ca...@zakaz.uk.xensource.com
Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?
Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch? On the way. A lot of graphics related fixes are now merged, and they make most of the graphics adapters (and KMS modesetting) work ok. However not this part. Only small commits are fixes and I consider the rest as hacks. Bastian -- There's another way to survive. Mutual trust -- and help. -- Kirk, Day of the Dove, stardate unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100817192832.ga22...@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org
