On 25 March 2015 at 08:50, Daniel Stone <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 24 March 2015 at 16:07, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +static int virtio_gpu_crtc_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>> + struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>> + struct drm_pending_vblank_event *event,
>> + uint32_t flags)
>> +{
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +}
>
> I'm not going to lie, I was really hoping the 5th (?) GPU option for
> Qemu would support pageflipping. Daniel's comment about conversion to
> atomic is relevant, but: do you have a mechanism which allows you to
> post updates (e.g. 'start displaying this buffer now please') that
> allows you to get events back when they have actually been displayed?
Page flip is implemented in a later patch,
https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/linux/commit/?h=virtio-gpu&id=1e167e8e964f8e08100d315dd354cc0a4b090841
Since its a long way from an actual display, finding out when
something is actually displayed is hard,
but when we've posted it to the frontbuffer should be fine.
Dave.
_______________________________________________
Virtualization mailing list
Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
