Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/virtio: Add window server support | From | Tomeu Vizoso <> | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:00:24 +0100 |
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On 02/12/2018 12:52 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> can we reach agreement on whether vsock should be involved in this? > > I think the best approach would be to have guest proxy and host proxy > use vsock for the wayland protocol. Use a wayland protocol extension to > reference the buffers in stdvga / ivshmem / virtio-gpu. Only the two > proxies need to understand the extension, the client <=> guest proxy and > host proxy <=> server communication would be standard wayland protocol.
Thanks for the ideas. What I haven't understood yet is how you see the actual passing of buffers via vsock. Are you thinking of using ancillary data to pass FDs, or something else?
Thanks,
Tomeu
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