Commit af3076e6 authored by Gerd Hoffmann's avatar Gerd Hoffmann
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drm: flip cirrus driver status to "obsolete". 

Also update Kconfig help text, explaining things:

Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies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 (VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio)

Signed-off-by: default avatarGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
parent 0c19f97f

MAINTAINERS

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@@ -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

drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig

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@@ -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	 Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies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)

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