Proposed F19 Feature: QXL/Spice KMS Driver

[Alon Levy]

> On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 11:52 +0000, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > = Features/QXLKMSSupport =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/QXLKMSSupport
> > 
> > Feature owner(s): Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Currently the QXL driver is X.org only, a KMS driver is required to
> > move
> > forward with projects like spice 3D, and also to allow more
> > features to be
> > show in virt environments like plymouth.
> > 
> > == Detailed description ==
> > The current spice GPU driver for Linux guests is an X.org only
> > driver. A
> > kernel modesetting driver needs to be developed along with a new
> > X.org driver
> > that runs on top of it. Additionally the kernel driver will allow
> > it to work
> > with the modesetting DDX driver. The new ioctl interface the driver
> > will
> > expose will allow updating the qxl DDX driver to work on it. The
> > new driver
> > needs to support all revisions of the qxl device.
> > 
> > Btw. Feature has been already proposed as Fedora 18 feature but was
> > postponed
> > for Fedora 19.
> 
> I thought the feature deadline was yesterday; are we on late features
> now?

I did miss that deadline..

> 
> This is a good change but I'd very much like it to be in and reliable
> enough for basic use by Alpha: we do a lot of validation testing in
> qxl
> KVMs so it wouldn't be ideal for this to be bouncing around during
> Alpha/Beta time. Is that likely to be the case? Thanks!

Dave Airlie has been working on this much lately, cc-ing him.

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