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

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:58:12AM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 

OK, thanks for the update.

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

So any new change to this patch? Or you just carry it as-is? I suppose
there should be some changes to fix Tim's test cases.

Wei.
> Ben

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