> > Well, it's simliar to qxl vs. qxl-vga. It's not qxl,vga={on,off} and
> > libvirt has no problems to deal with that ...
> >
> > Another more technical reason is (again) hotplug. ramfb needs an fw_cfg
> > entry for configuration, and fw_cfg entries can't be hotplugged. So
> > hotplugging vfio-
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:36:25AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 01:50:47PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:41:49 +0200
> > Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >
> > > So we have a boot display when using a vgpu as primary display.
> > >
> > > Use vfio-pci-ramfb
On 06/14/18 00:36, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 01:50:47PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> I suppose in the UEFI case runtime services can be used to continue
>> writing this display,
>
> Yes.
Small clarification for the wording -- "UEFI runtime services" do not
include anythi
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 01:50:47PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:41:49 +0200
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > So we have a boot display when using a vgpu as primary display.
> >
> > Use vfio-pci-ramfb instead of vfio-pci to enable it.
>
> Using a different device here seems
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:41:49 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> So we have a boot display when using a vgpu as primary display.
>
> Use vfio-pci-ramfb instead of vfio-pci to enable it.
Using a different device here seems like it almost guarantees a very
complicated path to support under libvirt. Wha
So we have a boot display when using a vgpu as primary display.
Use vfio-pci-ramfb instead of vfio-pci to enable it.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann
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include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h | 2 ++
hw/vfio/display.c | 10 ++
hw/vfio/pci.c | 15 +++
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