Re: QEMU Virtio GPU features status & roadmap?

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Hans de Ruiter <hans@keasigmadelta.com> writes:

(Cc: Adding others with interest in VirtIO GPUs to the thread)

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on Virtio GPU drivers for AmigaOS, and would like to know
> what features are currently stable enough to use. Looking at the
> master QEMU branch, both Virgl and blob resources are supported, but
> NOT at the same time. Is the ability to use both simultaneously coming
> soon?
>
> Also, what's the state of Venus/Vulkan support? Surveying various
> forks/branches, it looks very experimental and subject to change.
>
> I have the added difficulty that the AmigaOS Picasso96 driver API
> expects direct CPU access to all of VRAM, and likes to peek/poke
> directly into the bitmaps. That's clearly not possible without blob
> resources, or shared memory (not entirely sure what the shared memory
> feature is for). This is why I want to know what features are stable
> or coming soon.
>
> regards,
> Hans
>
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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro