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From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru>, discuss@spectrum-os.org
Subject: Re: New user getting started questions
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:23:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220315202339.6bqrzsf4yjkggbup@eve> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220315140604.ta433j557jsoknkv@eve>

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On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 02:06:04PM +0000, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 03:08:04PM +0000, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 12:59, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 11:37, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Have you seen the new mechanism for Wayland over virtio-gpu context
> > > >> types that Google are moving towards?  It's supported in mainline Linux
> > > >> now, and in Sommelier.  I'd expect virtio-wl to go away at some point in
> > > >> favour of that.
> > > >
> > > > Ah, is that released already? I saw you mentioned it in your handy
> > > > graphics write-up, but I thought it wasn't due until Linux 5.16:
> > > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtIO-Linux-5.16-Ctx-Type
> > >
> > > You're right.  They've just made it toLinus's git tree.  But they should
> > > be ready for testing if you're brave! :P
> >
> > I'm happy to test it now with Linux 5.16, but I think I need a newer
> > crosvm too. Looks like support got added in
> > https://github.com/google/crosvm/commit/231a54f36fbfb90ebac152d66f937af3644f6676,
> > so it should be in 94.14150.
> >
> > Is there a new-enough package for crosvm available somewhere? NixOS
> > only has 81.12871.0.0-rc1, and spectrum seems to be on
> > 91.13904.0.0-rc2.
>
> I don't know of one.  I haven't been keeping it up to date since we've
> mostly switched over to cloud-hypervisor for Spectrum, but it doesn't
> have any way of doing virtio-gpu (yet, porting crosvm's vhost-user-gpu
> implementation is on my list).
>
> I'll have a go at updating it in Nixpkgs and report back.

Okay, here's a package for crosvm 99.14468.0.0-rc1:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/164306

I've tested some basic stuff, but haven't tested virtio-gpu.  I don't
see any reason it wouldn't work, though.

Good luck!  Let me know if I can help with anything else.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-15 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-05 19:27 Thomas Leonard
2021-01-05 20:09 ` Michael Raskin
2021-01-06  7:04   ` Alyssa's break Alyssa Ross
2021-01-06  9:11     ` Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
2021-01-06  7:00 ` New user getting started questions Alyssa Ross
2021-01-06 15:56   ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-07 11:38     ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-07 15:33     ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-14 12:29     ` Alyssa Ross
2021-01-14 12:51       ` Alyssa Ross
2021-01-20 13:04         ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-27 17:31           ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-07 12:52             ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-09 16:59               ` Qubes-lite With KVM and Wayland Alyssa Ross
2021-03-10 14:19                 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-10 22:34                   ` Alyssa Ross
2021-03-09 16:25             ` New user getting started questions Alyssa Ross
2021-03-13  7:21               ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-13 13:52                 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-10-30 12:58                 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-03 11:36                   ` Alyssa Ross
2021-11-03 18:27                     ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-10 12:58                       ` Alyssa Ross
2021-11-10 12:00                         ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-11 11:09                           ` Alyssa Ross
2021-11-11 16:12                             ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-12 10:47                               ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-13 15:08                         ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-15 14:06                           ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-15 20:23                             ` Alyssa Ross [this message]
2022-03-16 16:18                               ` Using virtio-gpu instead of virtwl Thomas Leonard
2022-03-16 16:54                                 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-21 12:10                                 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-21 16:05                                   ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-22 11:08                                     ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-22 11:16                                       ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-22 20:05                                         ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-06 12:19                                           ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-13 17:12                                             ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-14 13:57                                               ` Alyssa Ross
2022-04-19 12:58                                                 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-19 12:01                                                   ` Alyssa Ross
2022-05-15 15:20                                                 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-05-16 11:55                                                   ` Alyssa Ross
2022-05-18  9:55                                                     ` Thomas Leonard
2022-06-05 16:29                                                       ` Thomas Leonard
2022-08-09 12:00                                     ` Alyssa Ross
2022-10-10 15:16                                       ` Thomas Leonard
2022-10-10 16:53                                         ` Alyssa Ross

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