Hi, > > How stable are these numbers? > > In theory the mesa/gallium numbers aren't stable, though I've never > seen them change yet, > > If they diverge in the future I'll just provide a remapping table > inside the guest driver. > > So it should be fine to expose these formats for 2D use.
Good. > >> How do you test guests with big endian? Isn't it really slow? > > > > emulated pseries machine with fedora ppc64. Yes, it is slow. Building > > a kernel with virtio-gpu driver takes a day or so. > > I spent a little while trying to get a ppc64 f20 install to complete, just > using the F20 qemu ppc64 system package but hit a bug I > think is related to missing SIMD instructions, so I'm not sure how best > to move forward with getting a test platform here. I'm using self-compiled qemu 2.1 which works fine, so it looks like this issue has been fixed meanwhile. If you want something newer without manually building it you can try the virt-preview repo (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository). cheers, Gerd
