Re: [PATCH 00/15] virtio-gpu: split into two devices.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:41:47PM +0000, Kasireddy, Vivek wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 03:48:42PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > Hi Gerd
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:22 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Currently we have one virtio-gpu device.  Problem with this approach is
> > > > that if you compile a full-featured qemu you'll get a virtio-gpu device
> > > > which depends on opengl and virgl, so these dependencies must be
> > > > installed and the libraries will be loaded into memory even if you don't
> > > > use virgl.  Also the code is cluttered with #ifdefs and a bit messy.
> > > >
> > > > This patch series splits the virtio-gpu device into two:
> > > >
> > > >  (1) virtio-gpu-device becomes the non-virgl device, same as
> > > >      virtio-gpu-device,virgl=off today.
> > > >  (2) virtio-gpu-gl-device is the new virgl device, same as
> > > >      virtio-gpu-device,virgl=on today.
> > > >
> > > > When compiling qemu without virglrenderer support virtio-gpu-device
> > > > behavior doesn't change.
> [Kasireddy, Vivek] Just a random thought: if a user enables both these 
> devices 
> either intentionally or accidentally, can they play nice with each other?

Yes, should work fine.

take care,
  Gerd