On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:20 AM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hmm, yes, I can see loopback virtio being useful for various cases. > > > Testing being one. A dummy virtio-gpu could be done too, or a more > > > advanced version which exports the display as vnc. > > So what's your suggestion on this? Changing this to drivers/virtio dir > > and then add some user space api? I am thinking about introducing a new > > /dev/dummy-virtio, then user space can open it, use ioctl to create new virtio > > hardware, and can handle the virtio traffic with read/write to simulate the > > different virtio hardware. > > Yep, sounds useful. You might want check out the uinput driver which > does something simliar for input devices. I wouldn't name this dummy, > maybe uvirtio. > > cheers, > Gerd > Add back mail list so other people can follow. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
