On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:19:38AM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: > > >painstakingly hand-weeding something like M*a's ldetect-lst you can get > >some minor benefits, like doing this kind of distinction where we want > >to load the native driver for a real card but not qemu's emulated > >cirrus. > > You are telling me it is hard to detect the real physical card versus > the emulated card? Come on! You can even make that decision by looking > at the cpu type. If your cpu is QEMU Virtual CPU, how about using the > virtual cirrus driver.... Oh, that's not difficult - it'd be possible to make the cirrus driver bail on virtualised hardware (easy to detect, just check whether there's a KMS driver bound). But that would still require someone to care about maintaining the cirrus driver, which nobody does. > Taking out everyone who tries to run fedora or rhel7 using a physical > cirrus card IMHO is just sloppy and lazy. Yes, people still run P-III > servers with SCSI disks and cirrus cards. In fact, I think you will > see it more within the enterprise then outside it. As Adam points out, nobody's running RHEL7 on a physical cirrus card. However, we'd still expect the vesa driver to work, and the fact that it doesn't is a bug[1]. Nobody ever added exa support to Cirrus, so it's not like you'd see any meaningful difference in performance. [1] I mean plausibly it's a bug in this particular Cirrus video BIOS, but it'd be nice to actually figure that out. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
