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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 7/9] drm/virtio: Improve DMA API usage for shmem BOs
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 10:02 AM Dmitry Osipenko
<dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/5/22 18:45, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >>> Also note that pci is not the only virtio transport we have.
> >>
> >> The VirtIO indeed has other transports, but only PCI is really supported
> >> in case of the VirtIO-GPU in kernel and in Qemu/crosvm, AFAICT. Hence
> >> only the PCI transport was tested.
> >
> > qemu -M microvm \
> > -global virtio-mmio.force-legacy=false \
> > -device virtio-gpu-device
> >
> > Gives you a functional virtio-gpu device on virtio-mmio.
> >
> > aarch64 virt machines support both pci and mmio too.
> > s390x has virtio-gpu-ccw ...
>
> Gerd, thank you very much! It's was indeed unclear to me how to test the
> MMIO GPU, but yours variant with microvm works! I was looking for trying
> aarch64 in the past, but it also was unclear how to do it since there is
> no DT support for the VirtIO-GPU, AFAICS.

just a drive-by note, IME on aarch64 kernels, at least with crosvm,
virtgpu is also a pci device.. the non-pci things in the guest kernel
use dt, but devices on discoverable busses like pci don't need dt
nodes (which is true also in the non-vm case)

BR,
-R


> I booted kernel with this patchset applied and everything is okay, Xorg
> works.
>
> [drm] Initialized virtio_gpu 0.1.0 0 for LNRO0005:01 on minor 0
> virtio-mmio LNRO0005:01: [drm] drm_plane_enable_fb_damage_clips() not
> called
> virtio-mmio LNRO0005:01: [drm] fb0: virtio_gpudrmfb frame buffer device
>
> There is no virgl support because it's a virtio-gpu-device and not
> virtio-gpu-device-gl that is PCI-only in Qemu. Hence everything seems good.
>
> I'd appreciate if you could give s390x a test.. I never touched s390x
> and it will probably take some extra effort to get into it.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Dmitry

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