Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Markus Armbruster wrote: >> 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! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
