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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Fix keymap support for PVFB.

To: Kasai Takanori <kasai.takanori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Fix keymap support for PVFB.
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:10:35 +0100
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:32:34PM +0900, Kasai Takanori wrote:
> Hi Daniel & Markus,
> 
> >On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 07:51:36PM +0900, Kasai Takanori wrote:
> >>However, I think that it should do this with xenkbd who is originally the
> >>driver on the FrontEnd side.
> >>It will be problem if the HVM domain is working on PVFB in the future.
> >
> >I honestly can't see HVM using the PVFB at any time in the forseeable 
> >future
> >unless PVFB is further developed to not suck. ie being able to change the
> >resolution / bpp would be a start for PVFB - something HVM can already do
> >trivially.
> 
> Does it mean not to support making the HVM domain work on PVFB?

Sure you /could/ do it. I'm just saying there's no real point in trying
to though, since  the HVM framebuffer has much more functionality than
the paravirt framebuffer. ie why would you want make HVM use a worse
framebuffer ?

Dan.
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