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title="pvfb framebuffer video driver support (frontend)"

contact="""
[port-xen](mailto:port-xen@NetBSD.org)
"""

mentors="""
"""

category="kernel"
difficulty="hard"
duration="16 hours"

description="""
Abstract: The pvfb video driver and the keyboard/point driver are
useful for gui interaction with a domU console, including
gui.

Deliverables:

A framebuffer device and console, which can be used to
interact with the domU. The qemu process on the dom0 can
then use this buffer to display to the regular X server
using the SDL, as it does with HVM domUs. This is very useful
for gui frontends to xen.

Implementation:

A simple framebuffer driver is implemented, along the lines of:
<http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/file/ca05cf1a9bdc/drivers/xen/fbfront/>
"""

]]