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Re: Upstream patch to fix Xen virtual framebuffer



On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 19:46 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:03 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:11:31AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > A fix (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121925882522748&w=2) has been
> > > > submitted and is currently between akpm and Linus once it is committed I
> > > > intend to add it to the Debian kernel. Hopefully it will find it's way
> > > > into a subsequent stable update at some point but I don't want to wait
> > > > for that right now.
> > > 
> > > A reason why you can't use the stable kernel updates?
> > 
> > I wasn't sure how long they would be in coming -- I could wait if that
> > is preferred but it makes it hard to work on graphical installer for Xen
> > in the meantime (which I'm not sure could go in now anyway so perhaps
> > it's a moot point)
> 
> as the fix is upstream and localised, there is no reason not to add
> it directly to the sid branch as you are the xen maintainer.

I'll do that then, I wasn't going to bother if there was a new stable
release ASAP with it in but it seems it'll be at least a few days.

The fix is in 27-rc4 so I won't bother with trunk.

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

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