Proposed F19 Feature: QXL/Spice KMS Driver

[Alon Levy]

> 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.

The main benefit is for the X & kernel graphics driver maintainers, who are trying to remove all drivers that are not KMS capable.

> 
> Thank you
> 
> Vít
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