[PATCH 2/2] virtio-gpu: update cursor after scanout

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 17:14:12 PST 2015


On 13 November 2015 at 23:00, Marc-André Lureau
<marcandre.lureau at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems appropriate for paravirtual hardware to reset cursor when the
> resolution changes, that way the cursor is removed if the machine is
> forcefully rebooted for ex. That's what the QXL/Spice server does. In
> order for virtio-gpu to work will with the Spice server, set the cursor
> again after changing the scanout.

I'm really not sure about this, I think we should probably have qemu
do this if necessary.

Normal GPU hw the cursor is independant from the modesetting, and we
turn it on/off.

I don't think the virt GPU should operate differently here.

Dave.


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