On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 18:24 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > xorg-x11-drv-cirrus                   orphan, airlied, ajax, alexl,         
> >                                       caillon, caolanm, glisse,             
> >                                       hadess, johnp, 
> >                                       mbarnes, rhughes, rstrode, ssp, whot, 
> >                                       xiphmont                              
> 
> I think this one came up last time we went through this exercise.
> 
> The Cirrus Logic CLGD 5446 card is the default one emulated by qemu
> (and Xen I think).  It has a number of problems, not least low maximum
> resolution, but it's simple and well understood.
> 
> Isn't this driver therefore required by this emulated card?  Or does
> another driver do the job?

No and yes, respectively:

dmt:~% modinfo cirrus
filename:       
/lib/modules/3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/cirrus.ko
license:        GPL
description:    qemu Cirrus emulation
author:         Matthew Garrett
alias:          pci:v00001013d000000B8sv00001AF4sd00001100bc*sc*i*
depends:        drm,drm_kms_helper,ttm
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64 SMP mod_unload 
signer:         Fedora kernel signing key
sig_key:        73:8E:76:E6:10:AD:B0:ED:59:17:44:B5:F4:96:16:FE:D5:5A:36:15
sig_hashalgo:   sha256
parm:           modeset:Disable/Enable modesetting (int)

The xorg-x11-drv-modesetting driver handles X support for KMS drivers
without userspace acceleration, which at the moment means ast, bochs,
cirrus, gma500, mgag200, and udl.

- ajax

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