[Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

[Ian Campbell]

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.

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