Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Virtual frame buffer: frontend

["Christian Limpach" <christian.limpach@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/10/06, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Additionally, I think that the dirty region protocol doesn't really
> > perform too well in quite simple usage cases like having video play in
> > one corner of the screen and the mouse being moved in the opposite
> > corner.  It's probably good enough for this version and supporting
> > this protocol in the future isn't too bad.
>
> There's been some discussion on this.  I'm not sure what bottom line
> emerged, if any.  Do we have to improve this before it can be merged?
> Or before it can be declared stable?  Or just eventually?  Unless it's
> the latter: do we already know in which direction to go?
I think the current stuff is good enough and the current protocol is
not hard to support even if we have something better in the future,
i.e. a guest using the current protocol is easy to support in a
backend which also supports smarter ways of passing dirty region
information.

Thank you for working on this!

   christian

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