Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:33:05 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer |
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Markus Armbruster wrote: > Here's the description again: > > Frontends are expected to write their protocol ABI to xenstore. Since > the protocol ABI defaults to the backend's native ABI, things work > fine without that as long as the frontend's native ABI is identical to > the backend's native ABI. This is not the case for xen-blkfront > running 32-on-64, because its ABI differs between 32 and 64 bit, and > thus needs this fix. > > I can break the dependency by putting the same bug that is now in > xen-blkfront into xen-fbfront and xen-kbdfront. >
Right, I see. The dependency is on the protocols.h changes.
J
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