On 2/18/25 09:27, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >> To be honest, I'm concerned that you may be using QEMU as a staging tree >> for Mesa/virglrenderer. Submitting a documentation to QEMU as a >> preparation to submit one to Mesa is not OK. >> >> You shouldn't submit a documentation to QEMU if upstream >> Mesa developers rejects it because it contains too little information. >> It may not hurt QEMU, but still lacks a valid reasoning. > Don't understand what you're talking about here. I may remind that this > is not my QEMU doc patch to begin with, hence it has nothing to do with > Mesa nor with virglrenderer. Alex wants to help QEMU users by adding > more QEMU documentation. > > Maybe you're also not very familiar with the Mesa development process. > This is okay, no problems. > >> Mesa should have more people who care virtio-gpu as there are people >> using other VMMs and perhaps it may be difficult to convince them to add >> a documentation like this. It is still not a good idea to workaround >> that by adding one to QEMU. The documentation submitted to QEMU is >> mostly reviewed only by me, who barely used Venus and DRM native >> contexts, which is not a good sign. Getting reviewed by more people is >> one of the advantage of open-source contribution after all so let's keep >> it. >> >> I can help you add a documentation to Mesa by reviewing and supporting >> one if you want, but I cannot support adding one to QEMU if it's done to >> avoid a potential challenge to add it to Mesa. > Thanks a lot! More reviewers always good to have, will definitely ping > you. Right now writing more Mesa documentation isn't a priority, hence > will take time to get to it.
To finish this thread, I'll repeat what was said on the v8 that I'll drop the build flags from the QEMU doc since they are bothering you too much and your voice has a high value. Thanks again for helping with the reviewing, very appreciate it! :) -- Best regards, Dmitry
