Mesa (main): docs: update virgl description

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Module: Mesa
Branch: main
Commit: 5cce0d1d9d3a706282731a59001bfa1d1d8c4e9f
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=5cce0d1d9d3a706282731a59001bfa1d1d8c4e9f

Author: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 17 12:54:07 2021 +0100

docs: update virgl description

Since this text was written, VirGL has become a shipping, production
quality solution. It's no longer a research project. Let's update the
text to reflect that.

While we're at it, let's drop the project from the page title, as this
is no longer the docs for the entire project.

Acked-by: Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/13836>

---

 docs/drivers/virgl.rst | 17 ++++++++---------
 docs/systems.rst       |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/drivers/virgl.rst b/docs/drivers/virgl.rst
index 03956a56645..bcaeeedb3ab 100644
--- a/docs/drivers/virgl.rst
+++ b/docs/drivers/virgl.rst
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-VirGL project
-=============
+VirGL
+=====
 
 What is VirGL?
 --------------
 
-VirGL is a research project to investigate the possibility of creating a
-virtual 3D GPU for use inside QEMU virtual machines, that allows the
-guest operating system to use the capabilities of the host GPU to
-accelerate 3D rendering. The plan is to have a guest GPU that is fully
+VirGL is a virtual 3D GPU for use inside QEMU virtual machines, that
+allows the guest operating system to use the capabilities of the host GPU
+to accelerate 3D rendering. The plan is to have a guest GPU that is fully
 independent of the host GPU.
 
 What exactly does it entail?
@@ -73,9 +72,9 @@ virglrenderer: the GL renderer https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/virgl/virglrendere
 Authors and Contributors
 ------------------------
 
-VirGL is a research project undertaken by Dave Airlie at Red Hat. It
-builds on lots of open source work in a number of projects, primarily the
-Gallium 3D code from the Mesa project.
+VirGL is a project undertaken by Dave Airlie at Red Hat. It builds on lots
+of open source work in a number of projects, primarily the Gallium 3D code
+from the Mesa project.
 
 Support or Contact
 ------------------
diff --git a/docs/systems.rst b/docs/systems.rst
index 73c7012b2f1..418d34bb5b5 100644
--- a/docs/systems.rst
+++ b/docs/systems.rst
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ Layered driver include:
 -  :doc:`D3D12 <drivers/d3d12>` - driver providing OpenGL on top of
    Microsoft's Direct3D 12 API.
 -  :doc:`SVGA3D <drivers/svga3d>` - driver for VMware virtual GPU
--  `VirGL <drivers/virgl>` - research project for accelerated graphics
-   for QEMU guests
+-  `VirGL <drivers/virgl>` - project for accelerated graphics for
+   QEMU guests
 -  :doc:`Zink <drivers/zink>` - driver providing OpenGL on top of
    Khoronos' Vulkan API.
 



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