[PATCH] Add virtio gpu driver.
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Mar 25 08:37:16 PDT 2015
Hi,
> BTW can we teach virtio-gpu to look for framebuffer using
> virtio pci caps?
The virtio-gpu driver doesn't matter much here, it doesn't use it
anyway.
> Or are there limitations such as only
> using IO port BARs, or compatibility with
> BIOS code etc that limit us to specific BARs anyway?
Yes, vgabios code needs to know. Currently it has bar #2 for the vga
framebuffer bar hardcoded. It's 16bit code. I don't feel like making
the probing more complicated ...
cheers,
Gerd
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