Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/virtio: Add window server support

2018-02-05 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 03:46:17PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On 02/05/2018 01:20 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >Hi, > > > > > > Why not use virtio-vsock to run the wayland protocol? I don't like > > > > the idea to duplicate something with very simliar functionality in > > > > virtio-gpu. > >

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/virtio: Add window server support

2018-02-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On 02/05/2018 01:20 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Why not use virtio-vsock to run the wayland protocol? I don't like the idea to duplicate something with very simliar functionality in virtio-gpu. The reason for abandoning that approach was the type of objects that could be shared via virtio

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/virtio: Add window server support

2018-02-05 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > Why not use virtio-vsock to run the wayland protocol? I don't like > > the idea to duplicate something with very simliar functionality in > > virtio-gpu. > > The reason for abandoning that approach was the type of objects that > could be shared via virtio-vsock would be extremely limite

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/virtio: Add window server support

2018-02-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On 1 February 2018 at 17:36, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Sorry for joining the party late. Had a broken finger and was offline for a bunch of weeks (and a buif backlog afterwards ...). Hi, no problem, hope it's fine now. This is to allow clients running within VMs to be able to communicate wit