<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="Osso Notes"> <title></title></head> <body> On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, 23:51:13 BST, Dave Airlie <<a href="mailto:airlied@gmail.com">airlied@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > That would be the local rendering solution I think we'd prefer, > > qemu runs as qemu user, uses EGL to talk to the drm render-nodes, > has some sort of unix socket that the viewer connects to and can hand > fds across, then the client viewer uses EGL or GLX to render on-screen > and import the handles into EGL and displays the contents, there may > be a small bit of sync info to send across. > > For remoting then we'd have an extra readback (slow) from the GPU and > then spice or vnc encoding stages. For the non-local case wouldn't it be possible to have the GPU render directly to a shared buffer in system RAM rather than to the GPU memory and reading back? </body> </html>