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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 29/29] hw/display: add vhost-user-vga & gpu-p
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 29/29] hw/display: add vhost-user-vga & gpu-pci |
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Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:13:43 +0100 |
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 03:09:16PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Add new virtio-gpu devices with a "vhost-user" property. Tthe
> associated vhost-user backend is used to handle the virtio rings and
> provide rendering results thanks to the vhost-user-gpu protocol.
>
> Example usage:
> -object vhost-user-backend,id=vug,cmd="./vhost-user-gpu"
> -device vhost-user-vga,vhost-user=vug
This is a pretty different approach from what QEMU has done for modelling
in the past. We've always had separation between the frontend device and
the backend provider, with a single frontend device impl being plugged
into an arbitrary backend type. This though is introducing a frontend
device that actually has the name of a backend which is rather bizarre
and quite misleading as it on first sight looks like a new device type.
If we must introduce new device types, at very least the confusion could
be reduced by calling it "virtio-vga-vhost" so it is clear its the same
device type as virtio-vga, likewise 'virtio-gpu-pci-vhost'
Regards,
Daniel
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