[OE-core] [PATCH 3/5] qemux86: support X11 when QEMU is emulating a different GPU than vmware

[Max Eliaser]

My understanding is that xf86-video-modesetting is completely
unaccelerated, whereas xf86-video-cirrus does some 2D acceleration. Is
that not correct?

-Max

On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 15:48 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 26 August 2014 18:34, Max Eliaser <max.eliaser at intel.com> wrote:
> > QEMU is capable of emulating four different VGA adapters: cirrus, std, vmware,
> > and QXL. By adding the cirrus and fbdev X.Org drivers to the qemux86 image,
> > the image can be made to launch an X server on when cirrus and std are chosen,
> > in addition to just vmware. (The build of QEMU in OE-Core appears to have QXL
> > disabled, meaning a driver for it is unnecessary.)
> 
> I knew there was something missing...
> 
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig
> 
> The kernel has a minimal DRM/KMS driver for the Cirrus that qemu
> emulates, so we should also add xf86-video-modesettings driver to this
> list and ensure that the qemu images enable this kernel driver.
> 
> Ross