Re: [Spice-devel] Add support for A8 bitmap format

2012-06-18 Thread Søren Sandmann
Gerd Hoffmann writes: > We surely need a switch to make a8 visible to the guest. live migration > between hosts with & without a8 isn't going to fly, so you only can > enable a8 once all host machines in your cluster are upgraded. > > One way is to simply bump the qxl pci revision from 3 to 4. >

Re: [Spice-devel] Add support for A8 bitmap format

2012-06-18 Thread Alon Levy
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:18:47AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > >> Heavy handed alternative: > >> - Filter the messages in the server and translate any A8 message to ?? > > For client compatibility this would be great, not sure how much effort > this is though. On furthur thought ab

Re: [Spice-devel] Add support for A8 bitmap format

2012-06-18 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, >> Heavy handed alternative: >> - Filter the messages in the server and translate any A8 message to ?? For client compatibility this would be great, not sure how much effort this is though. > However, I also forgot about the following scenario: > Running old spice server, old QXL driver

Re: [Spice-devel] Add support for A8 bitmap format

2012-06-17 Thread Alon Levy
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:51:31PM +0300, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > On 06/17/2012 12:03 PM, Alon Levy wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:57:49AM -0400, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > >>- Original Message - > >>>Hello, > >>> > >>>The following patches add support for a new A8 bitmap format, and for > >>>LZ

Re: [Spice-devel] Add support for A8 bitmap format

2012-06-17 Thread Yaniv Kaul
On 06/17/2012 12:03 PM, Alon Levy wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:57:49AM -0400, Yaniv Kaul wrote: - Original Message - Hello, The following patches add support for a new A8 bitmap format, and for LZ compression of it. This format is heavliy used by the X server Render extension for

Re: [Spice-devel] Add support for A8 bitmap format

2012-06-17 Thread Alon Levy
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:57:49AM -0400, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > - Original Message - > > Hello, > > > > The following patches add support for a new A8 bitmap format, and for > > LZ compression of it. This format is heavliy used by the X server > > Render extension for glyphs and geometry inf

Re: [Spice-devel] Add support for A8 bitmap format

2012-06-15 Thread Yaniv Kaul
- Original Message - > Hello, > > The following patches add support for a new A8 bitmap format, and for > LZ compression of it. This format is heavliy used by the X server > Render extension for glyphs and geometry information. > > I have verified that the patches with an experiemental ve

[Spice-devel] Add support for A8 bitmap format

2012-06-15 Thread Søren Sandmann
Hello, The following patches add support for a new A8 bitmap format, and for LZ compression of it. This format is heavliy used by the X server Render extension for glyphs and geometry information. I have verified that the patches with an experiemental version of the QXL X driver that can generate