Proposed F19 Feature: QXL/Spice KMS Driver

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 31.1.2013 12:52, Jaroslav Reznik napsal(a):
> = 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.
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So what is this feature good for? How can I benefit from it? May be 
Plymouth will work in KVM while it did not work previously? I am not sure.

Thank you

Vít