From: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Reizner <zachr@google.com>,
"dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow 32bpp framebuffers for cirrus drm
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:21:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414426897.15671.19.camel@dmt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414423836.9909.21.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org>
On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 16:30 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> How about stop using cirrus and go for 'qemu -vga std' instead?
>
> Linux kernel 3.14+ comes with a modesetting driver for the qemu standard
> vga (CONFIG_DRM_BOCHS). Just switch over, and all your cirrus pain is
> gone.
>
> That is much better than trying use features the real cirrus hardware
> never had, then praying that all qemu versions in the wild are actually
> doing what you want qemu do.
I was going to ask for a pci revision id bump at the same time, so the
guest could know.
I heartily agree, people should stop using cirrus. And qemu should stop
defaulting to it. Since neither has happened yet, enhancing the
emulation holds the promise of making the future better...
- ajax
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-27 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-07 19:49 [PATCH] allow 32bpp framebuffers for cirrus drm Zach Reizner
2014-10-25 1:31 ` Stéphane Marchesin
2014-10-27 15:00 ` Adam Jackson
2014-10-27 15:30 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-10-27 15:36 ` Zachary Reizner
2014-10-27 16:21 ` Adam Jackson [this message]
2014-10-27 22:09 ` Zachary Reizner
2014-10-28 9:09 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-10-28 17:04 ` Zachary Reizner
2014-10-29 11:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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