Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 00/13] vhost-user for input & GPU

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:38 PM Marc-André Lureau
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> vhost-user allows to drive a virtio device in a seperate
> process. After vhost-user-net, we have seen
> vhost-user-{scsi,blk,crypto} added more recently.
>
> This series, initially proposed ~3 years ago, time flies
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01905.html)
> contributes with vhost-user-input and vhost-user-gpu.
>
> You may start a vhost-user-gpu with virgl rendering in a separate
> process like this:
>
> $ ./vhost-user-gpu --virgl -s vgpu.sock &
> $ qemu...
>   -chardev socket,id=chr,path=vgpu.sock
>   -device vhost-user-vga,chardev=chr
>
> v5:
>  - remove user-creatable version of vhost-user-backend
>  - remove optinal management of sub-process in vhost-user-backend
>  - removed daemonize/pid code
>  - drop introduction of new input & gpu messages for PCI config space
>    handling, instead use VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG
>  - plain mem & udmabuf fallback for 2d rendering
>  - rebased, kconfig-ify, rst-ify
>
> Gerd Hoffmann (1):
>   curses: fix wchar_t printf warning
>
> Greg Kurz (1):
>   spapr_pci: Fix broken naming of PCI bus
>
> Marc-André Lureau (10):
>   Add vhost-user-backend
>   Add vhost-user-input-pci
>   libvhost-user: add PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG if {set,get}_config
>   contrib: add vhost-user-input
>   vhost-user: add vhost_user_gpu_set_socket()
>   virtio: add virtio-gpu bswap helpers header
>   contrib: add vhost-user-gpu
>   virtio-gpu: split virtio-gpu, introduce virtio-gpu-base
>   virtio-gpu: split virtio-gpu-pci & virtio-vga
>   hw/display: add vhost-user-vga & gpu-pci
>
> Peter Maydell (1):
>   Update version for v4.0.0-rc3 release
>

oops, some bonus patches :) my bad, please ignore



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Marc-André Lureau