On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 16:30 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > How about stop using cirrus and go for 'qemu -vga std' instead? > > Linux kernel 3.14+ comes with a modesetting driver for the qemu standard > vga (CONFIG_DRM_BOCHS). Just switch over, and all your cirrus pain is > gone. > > That is much better than trying use features the real cirrus hardware > never had, then praying that all qemu versions in the wild are actually > doing what you want qemu do.
I was going to ask for a pci revision id bump at the same time, so the guest could know. I heartily agree, people should stop using cirrus. And qemu should stop defaulting to it. Since neither has happened yet, enhancing the emulation holds the promise of making the future better... - ajax
