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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:52:08AM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:19:04PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > Implementing a virtualized DRM/KMS driver would at least get you the
> > framebuffer interface more or less for free, while allowing you to deal
> > with the userspace side of things incrementally (ie, running a dummy xorg
> > on top of the virtualized fbdev until the DRI side catches up). It would
> > also enable you to focus on the 2D and 3D parts independently.
> 
> Guys, have a look at Gallium.  In many ways it's a pile of crap, but
> at least it's a pile of crap designed by vmware for *exactly* your
> problem space.

Or perhaps Chromium, which was designed years ago and can pass-through
OpenGL commands via a pipe. VirtualBox uses it for their PV drivers.
Naturally it is not a FB, just a OpenGL command pass-through interface.