Re: Upstream patch to fix Xen virtual framebuffer
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.
--
maks
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