On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM Phil Dennis-Jordan <p...@philjordan.eu> wrote: > It is not cross-architecture. So, the PVG guest drivers with x86-64 macOS > don't > give useful results with the aarch64 macOS host PVG framework. (I suspect a > mismatch in texture memory layout and perhaps some other data format issues > Apple's GPUs use a "swizzled" memory layout, whereas Intel/AMD/NVIDIA's do > not.)
Thanks, that helps. > In summary, hw/display/apple-gfx-mmio.m has a hard dependency on aarch64 > *host* > systems, and both apple-gfx device variants only make sense when host arch > matches > guest arch. (Unless you're a developer attempting to find a workaround to the > incompatibility.) I'm very much not a Meson expert, so this was my best > attempt at > encoding these facts in the build system. (And nobody suggested anything > better during > review.) I'll find a way to do that, thanks. I also would prefer to add --enable/--disable-pvg; I can take care of that, but I just need to know... >> Either way, the Kconfig file does not need "depends on AARCH64" and it >> should have just >> >> depends on MAC_PVG >> >> with an "imply" somewhere in hw/arm/Kconfig. ... which boards should enable MAC_PVG_MMIO? Is it only VIRT, or something else? Paolo
