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QXL/Spice KMS Driver
Summary
Currently the QXL driver is X.org only, a KMS driver is required to move forward with projects like spice 3D, and also to allow more features to be show in virt environments like plymouth.
Owner
- Name: Dave Airlie
- Email: <airlied@redhat.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 17
- Last updated: (DATE)
- Percentage of completion: 5%
Detailed Description
The current spice GPU driver for Linux guests is an X.org only driver. A kernel modesetting driver needs to be developed along with a new X.org driver that runs on top of it.
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora acts closer to native hardware inside spice VMs.
Scope
Develop a basic modesetting driver for QXL GPU Develop an acceleration/memory management interface for QXL GPU. Develop a new X.org driver on top of the new interfaces.
How To Test
Test inside a virtual machine with QXL support. plymouth should show up along with smooth booting.
User Experience
Dependencies
kernel changes. X.org changes.
Contingency Plan
Do nothing, stay as we are now.
Documentation
See spice-space