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| -rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig | 9 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 15eadc8..b8e2bbe6 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4116,7 +4116,8 @@ M: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> M: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> L: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org T: git git://git.kraxel.org/linux drm-qemu -S: Odd Fixes +S: Obsolete +W: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ F: drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/ RADEON and AMDGPU DRM DRIVERS diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig index 04b3c16..7f4cc6e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig @@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ config DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU This is a KMS driver for emulated cirrus device in qemu. It is *NOT* intended for real cirrus devices. This requires the modesetting userspace X.org driver. + + Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies + and can't keep up with todays needs. More background: + https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ + + Better alternatives are: + - stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+) + - qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice) + - virtio (DRM_VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio) |
