Also update Kconfig help text, explaining things: Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies and can't keep up with todays needs. More background: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ Better alternatives are: - stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+) - qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice) - virtio (VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio) Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> --- MAINTAINERS | 3 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 84dc747..feb34a3 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4037,7 +4037,8 @@ M: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> M: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> L: qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx T: git git://git.kraxel.org/linux drm-qemu -S: Odd Fixes +S: Obsolete +W: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ F: drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/ RADEON and AMDGPU DRM DRIVERS diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig index 04b3c16..ca5c0f2 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig @@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ config DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU This is a KMS driver for emulated cirrus device in qemu. It is *NOT* intended for real cirrus devices. This requires the modesetting userspace X.org driver. + + Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies + and can't keep up with todays needs. More background: + https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ + + Better alternatives are: + - stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+) + - qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice) + - virtio (VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio) -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
