Hi Michael, sorry for hijacking the thread, but can I ask if there will be (or even better - is already) support for MORE framebuffers? I still see it as nice feature for more broader audience then me only :)
For example as tooling solution for development multihead devices. BR. /Jan On 8 February 2017 at 12:00, Michael Thayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am mainly asking this out of curiosity and interest. On Linux as of > X.Org 1.19 we no longer maintain the user-space vboxvideo driver (it does > not play well with non-root X.Org or with Wayland) and instead wrote a > drm/kms driver which works with the X.Org modesetting driver and GNOME > Shell. I was wondering whether any non-Linux developers have had a look at > the source yet, since I know that a number of other systems have ported drm > drivers from Linux. The source code in our tree for the Linux drm/kms > driver for vboxvideo is located at > > src/VBox/Additions/linux/drm/ > > See the make files and the file files_vboxvideo_drv for details of all the > files involved (I am still trying to simplify it). It builds unchanged > against Linux 3.11 to Linux 4.10 inclusive, which I hope would simplify > porting, and I would be happy to make any changes to our in-tree sources > which are not problematic for Linux and are helpful for other systems (even > if you carry your own sources it would probably be helpful if what we > provide is as close to yours as possible). > > Regards > Michael > -- > Michael Thayer | VirtualBox engineer > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | D-71384 Weinstadt > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der > Handelskammer Midden-Nederland, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >
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