[PATCH v7 7/9] drm/virtio: Improve DMA API usage for shmem BOs

Dmitry Osipenko dmitry.osipenko at collabora.com
Tue Jul 5 17:02:09 UTC 2022


On 7/5/22 18:45, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>>> Also note that pci is not the only virtio transport we have.
>>
>> The VirtIO indeed has other transports, but only PCI is really supported
>> in case of the VirtIO-GPU in kernel and in Qemu/crosvm, AFAICT. Hence
>> only the PCI transport was tested.
> 
> qemu -M microvm \
>   -global virtio-mmio.force-legacy=false \
>   -device virtio-gpu-device
> 
> Gives you a functional virtio-gpu device on virtio-mmio.
> 
> aarch64 virt machines support both pci and mmio too.
> s390x has virtio-gpu-ccw ...

Gerd, thank you very much! It's was indeed unclear to me how to test the
MMIO GPU, but yours variant with microvm works! I was looking for trying
aarch64 in the past, but it also was unclear how to do it since there is
no DT support for the VirtIO-GPU, AFAICS.

I booted kernel with this patchset applied and everything is okay, Xorg
works.

 [drm] Initialized virtio_gpu 0.1.0 0 for LNRO0005:01 on minor 0
 virtio-mmio LNRO0005:01: [drm] drm_plane_enable_fb_damage_clips() not
called
 virtio-mmio LNRO0005:01: [drm] fb0: virtio_gpudrmfb frame buffer device

There is no virgl support because it's a virtio-gpu-device and not
virtio-gpu-device-gl that is PCI-only in Qemu. Hence everything seems good.

I'd appreciate if you could give s390x a test.. I never touched s390x
and it will probably take some extra effort to get into it.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry


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