Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard andpointer

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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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