[Mesa-dev] How to enable virgl?

[Christophe de Dinechin]

> On 28 Feb 2017, at 14:58, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 28 February 2017 at 12:09, Boyan Ding <boyan.j.ding at gmail.com <mailto:boyan.j.ding at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 2017-02-28 18:55 GMT+08:00 Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin at redhat.com>:
>>> Newbie question…
>>> 
>>> I’ve been investigating a regression in Fedora 25 between mesa-dri-drivers versions 12.0.3 and 13.0.3 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1426549).
>>> 
>>> The output with the Fedora version of Mesa is:
>>> 
>>> GL_RENDERER   = Gallium 0.4 on virgl
>>> 
>>> So virgl is enabled and working in this VM.
>>> 
>>> When I build Mesa from sources, and configure it with “—with-galium-drivers=virtgl”, I get this from glxgears -info:
>> 
>> Should be 'virgl' instead of 'virtgl'
>> 
> Hmm not sure about that — [should be --] it errors out in here. The
> major things is the missing second L in galLium ->
> --with-gallium-drivers.
> If the latter is correct we have a nice error message at configure ;-)

Indeed, the typo is in the e-mail, not the command line. For some reason, copy-paste stopped working and I just re-typed it in e-mail, with two typos. Sorry.

I just checked. If you mistype “virtgl” instead of “virgl”, you get a configure error “Unknown Gallium driver: virtgl”. If you type galium instead of gallium, you get a warning early on. That one is probably harder to see, because it is scrolled off-screen pretty rapidly. But it’s unmissable if you watch the screen. In any case, I don’t think that’s the problem, I checked in my config.log that things were OK.

> 
>> Also, you can see fedora's configure parameters at
>> https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mesa.git/tree/mesa.spec#n399 <https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mesa.git/tree/mesa.spec#n399>
>> 
> Tl;Dr: If you are not too sure just copy the lot (literally) from your
> distro ;-)

Thanks. There are a few options I did not try. My vote goes for —enable-selinux.

Unfortunately, I just had a disk loss on the machine where I was testing this, so I will need a bit of time to re-try on a different machine.

That being said, my question really was: is there some logging regarding which driver is being selected. Looking at the source code, I don’t see any. I think that would be useful information to add to LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose output. I'll add some instrumentation to understand what is going on, and I’ll submit a patch with whatever proves useful to understand my issue.


Christophe

> 
> -Emil
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