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author | Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> | 2016-11-21 13:32:06 -0500 |
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committer | Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> | 2017-01-10 08:00:40 -0500 |
commit | af3076e67c31ceb3e314933dd61cb68a1d5120cf (patch) | |
tree | 3ec829a29c38fa14f4fbde92746416331b73e638 | |
parent | 0c19f97f12bbb1c2370cb62e31d0f749642937ee (diff) |
drm: flip cirrus driver status to "obsolete".
Also update Kconfig help text, explaining things:
Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies
and can't keep up with todays needs. More background:
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/
Better alternatives are:
- stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+)
- qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice)
- virtio (VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio)
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig | 9 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 15eadc8c58c9..b8e2bbe621a3 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS | |||
@@ -4116,7 +4116,8 @@ M: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | |||
4116 | M: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> | 4116 | M: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> |
4117 | L: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org | 4117 | L: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org |
4118 | T: git git://git.kraxel.org/linux drm-qemu | 4118 | T: git git://git.kraxel.org/linux drm-qemu |
4119 | S: Odd Fixes | 4119 | S: Obsolete |
4120 | W: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ | ||
4120 | F: drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/ | 4121 | F: drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/ |
4121 | 4122 | ||
4122 | RADEON and AMDGPU DRM DRIVERS | 4123 | RADEON and AMDGPU DRM DRIVERS |
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig index 04b3c161dfae..7f4cc6e172ab 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig | |||
@@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ config DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU | |||
7 | This is a KMS driver for emulated cirrus device in qemu. | 7 | This is a KMS driver for emulated cirrus device in qemu. |
8 | It is *NOT* intended for real cirrus devices. This requires | 8 | It is *NOT* intended for real cirrus devices. This requires |
9 | the modesetting userspace X.org driver. | 9 | the modesetting userspace X.org driver. |
10 | |||
11 | Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies | ||
12 | and can't keep up with todays needs. More background: | ||
13 | https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ | ||
14 | |||
15 | Better alternatives are: | ||
16 | - stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+) | ||
17 | - qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice) | ||
18 | - virtio (DRM_VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio) | ||