Hi, > But there's some work to add generic mmap support to dma-bufs, and for > really simple case (where we don't have a gl driver to handle the dma-buf > specially) for untiled framebuffers that would be all we need? Not requiring gl is certainly a bonus, people might want build qemu without opengl support to reduce the attach surface and/or package dependency chain. And, yes, requirements for the non-gl rendering path are pretty low. qemu needs something it can mmap, and which it can ask pixman to handle. Preferred format is PIXMAN_x8r8g8b8 (qemu uses that internally in alot of places so this avoids conversions). Current plan is to have a special vfio region (not visible to the guest) where the framebuffer lives, with one or two pages at the end for meta data (format and size). Status field is there too and will be used by qemu to request updates and the kernel to signal update completion. Guess I should write that down as vfio rfc patch ... I don't think it makes sense to have fields to notify qemu about which framebuffer regions have been updated, I'd expect with full-screen composing we have these days this information isn't available anyway. Maybe a flag telling whenever there have been updates or not, so qemu can skip update processing in case we have the screensaver showing a black screen all day long. cheers, Gerd _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
