[Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:12:10PM +0200, Mario wrote:
> Alon,
> 
> I just took a look into the MS documentation about the WDDM DriverEntry code
> etc. It seems the pointer sturcture of a wddm driver has to implement a lot
> of functions to be a valid wddm driver. Unfortunately I found nither
> detailed documentation about wddm drivers (except the function reference on
> msdn) nor example code for a C or C++ wddm driver (maybe vesa to
> understand). I was woundering if you had a source to learn. Or is Windows 8
> not that interesting for spice at present? -- please say 'no' ;-)

Sorry to ""disappoint"", I think it's very interesting to spice, wddm
drivers are userspace and so easier to debug and required for windows 8
support.

Some googling:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Kernel-mode-display-only-49adea58

But that's only a miniport, and under MS-PL. Can't find anything else.

> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> /Mario
> 
> On Mon, 21 May 2012 14:28:22 +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> >On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Mario wrote:
> >>Alon, thank you for your reply. Does this mean there is a bigger step to
> >>support Windows 8?
> >
> >Yes. We need to write a new driver, WDDM one, will probably share much
> >code between it and the current driver.
> >
> 
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