Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:40:09 +0100 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] video: Add Hyper-V Synthetic Video Frame Buffer Driver |
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On Tue, Feb 19, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> The emulated video device is a separate device from the synthetic video. > The synthetic driver can only take control of the synthetic video, but not > the emulated video.
Please add this to the comment above.
> Actually, we already have a similar mechanism in ata/ata_piix.c to disable > emulated IDE drive on Hyper-V, so it won't conflict with the synthetic drive.
I havent read the vesafb code, but I think it can kind of give up the hardware, something ata_piix can not do.
Olaf
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