Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add virtio gpu driver. | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:37:16 +0100 |
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Hi,
> BTW can we teach virtio-gpu to look for framebuffer using > virtio pci caps?
The virtio-gpu driver doesn't matter much here, it doesn't use it anyway.
> Or are there limitations such as only > using IO port BARs, or compatibility with > BIOS code etc that limit us to specific BARs anyway?
Yes, vgabios code needs to know. Currently it has bar #2 for the vga framebuffer bar hardcoded. It's 16bit code. I don't feel like making the probing more complicated ...
cheers, Gerd
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