ajax, What do you mean by a pci revision id bump? Do you want it in qemu or the kernel? Why is a revision bump needed when none of the behavior of the cirrus device has changed? I agree that reading the BAR size from the device would be an enhancement. I'm working on the patch to include that now. -Zach
On Mon Oct 27 2014 at 9:21:42 AM Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote: > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20141027/86e05c01/attachment.html>
