On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 1:45 AM Alexander Kanavin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 02:56, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> but I'll get to it, or you are welcome to try and report.
>>> Mips can be either fixed like suggested, or be a specific exception.
>>>
>>> For the rest of the targets, I see that you have extended the fbdev 
>>> fallback to qemuall only on Jan 9 this year. So it's very unlikely anyone 
>>> is using them to run weston (not to mention how painfully slow that would 
>>> be), and so it would just be wasteful to test or fix them.
>>
>>
>> We should be only applying tested part debugging these breakages is very 
>> hard so when we know it will break we should be careful as with this patch
>
>
> I have tested these things now:
>
> 1. Switching mips from cirrus to std vga works fine, as long as xorg.conf is 
> also deleted (it's written specifically for cirrus and isn't working or 
> needed with std vga). Both weston and sato boot and look right. I'll send a 
> patch for it.
>
> 2. Switching weston to kms backend degrades performance to unusable level, as 
> neither kvm nor virtio/virgl are available for non-x86 qemu, and kms backend 
> is using software renderer in mesa. So fbdev is the only realistic option 
> there. But for x86 qemu kms is still viable. I'm not sure how to best 
> configure it though.

copy qemuall/weston.ini new folders qemux86 and qemux86-64 and point
to backend it should be using.

>
> Alex
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