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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add grant references for fbfront/kbdfront

To: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add grant references for fbfront/kbdfront
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:21:15 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:55:24PM -0500, Daniel De Graaf wrote:
> On 01/07/2011 11:51 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:12:56AM -0500, dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> This series fixes the interface for the fbfront and kbdfront devices,
> >> which were storing MFNs in xenstore rather than creating grant table
> >> entries. To maintain backwards compatibility, a different xenstore key
> >> is used (page-gref instead of page-ref) and the use of grants must be
> >> requested for fbfront (because two levels of page references are
> >> embedded within the shared page). This makes it possible to move a
> >> display server out of dom0 without giving the display domain full
> >> access to other domain's memory.
> > 
> > So these patches go on top of  xen/stable-2.6.32 tree right?
> >
> 
> They apply to either 2.6.32 or 2.6.37; I have tested them on both.

What is the 2.6.37 branch you applied it to? Can you point me to the
git tree? Or a set of patches that need to be applied on top of ftp.kernel.org
virgin 2.6.37?

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