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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2017-01-27 11:00:42 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2017-01-27 11:00:42 +1000 |
| commit | b0df0b251b25b0bf89ef3e518330fcac300add86 (patch) | |
| tree | 962d8f7e91b2552a87af230762085ad97292a091 /drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus | |
| parent | f0493e653f9679114d1dfd54ab88b54ce95576e1 (diff) | |
| parent | ff9f8a7cf935468a94d9927c68b00daae701667e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into drm-next
Backmerge Linus master to get the connector locking revert.
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux: (645 commits)
sysctl: fix proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax()
Revert "drm/probe-helpers: Drop locking from poll_enable"
MAINTAINERS: add Dan Streetman to zbud maintainers
MAINTAINERS: add Dan Streetman to zswap maintainers
mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module
mn10300: fix build error of missing fpu_save()
romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD
frv: add missing atomic64 operations
mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update
mm, page_alloc: move cpuset seqcount checking to slowpath
mm, page_alloc: fix fast-path race with cpuset update or removal
mm, page_alloc: fix check for NULL preferred_zone
kernel/panic.c: add missing \n
fbdev: color map copying bounds checking
frv: add atomic64_add_unless()
mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask
radix-tree: fix private list warnings
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add VmPin
mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges
proc: add a schedule point in proc_pid_readdir()
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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig index ca3809851377..fc78c90ee931 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 + + Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies + and can't keep up with todays needs.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) |