Re: [PATCH 00/15] virtio-gpu: split into two devices.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 03:48:42PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi Gerd
> 
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:22 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Currently we have one virtio-gpu device.  Problem with this approach is
> > that if you compile a full-featured qemu you'll get a virtio-gpu device
> > which depends on opengl and virgl, so these dependencies must be
> > installed and the libraries will be loaded into memory even if you don't
> > use virgl.  Also the code is cluttered with #ifdefs and a bit messy.
> >
> > This patch series splits the virtio-gpu device into two:
> >
> >  (1) virtio-gpu-device becomes the non-virgl device, same as
> >      virtio-gpu-device,virgl=off today.
> >  (2) virtio-gpu-gl-device is the new virgl device, same as
> >      virtio-gpu-device,virgl=on today.
> >
> > When compiling qemu without virglrenderer support virtio-gpu-device
> > behavior doesn't change.
> >
> 
> Nice!
> We are post 6.0 soft freeze. I suppose you target those changes for 6.1?

Yes, it's clearly 6.1 material at this point.

take care,
  Gerd