linux-kernel - Re: [LKML] Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

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Message-ID: <20100319135606.GA24262@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:56:06 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	oerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zamsden@...hat.com>, ziteng.huang@...el.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [LKML] Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code
	into a single project

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:52:08AM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:19:04PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > Implementing a virtualized DRM/KMS driver would at least get you the
> > framebuffer interface more or less for free, while allowing you to deal
> > with the userspace side of things incrementally (ie, running a dummy xorg
> > on top of the virtualized fbdev until the DRI side catches up). It would
> > also enable you to focus on the 2D and 3D parts independently.
> 
> Guys, have a look at Gallium.  In many ways it's a pile of crap, but
> at least it's a pile of crap designed by vmware for *exactly* your
> problem space.

Or perhaps Chromium, which was designed years ago and can pass-through
OpenGL commands via a pipe. VirtualBox uses it for their PV drivers.
Naturally it is not a FB, just a OpenGL command pass-through interface.
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