On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:58 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Let's balkanize some more then? > > No, qxl is our paravirt vga, we should improve it instead of spawning > new ones (which will be horrible in the eyes of the next person to look > at them). You should also be getting the drm driver for free. > > http://spice-space.org/page/DRM
"Free" is a big word here, I wouldn't be surprised if it was totally endian busted :-) Why so much effort into a bad design on top of a crack transport btw ? Is it just RH politics of there's a good reason hiding somewhere ? Some kind of morbid fascination for anything Windows ? People I've talked to around in the community seem to agree that some minor improvements on qemu-vga are worthwhile, so I'm doing them, nothing drastic, mostly having a mirror of the legacy IO registers in an MMIO BAR so it's more usable for non-x86 platforms, and I'm about to add some simplistic 2D blit facility so we can have a semi-decent fb console over vnc. I can trivially do an equivalent of cirrusdrmfb for it so we get X mode setting / RandR. That gives us a baseline for mostly unaccelerated 2D. Something tells me that getting that spice/qxl gunk will be more than a trivial effort (but I might be wrong) and I'm reluctant to start committing effort on it since so far I yet have to see it being actually picked up by people. Cheers, Ben.
