Re: Testing direct rendering/more video cards with qemu?

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le mer. 18 nov. 2020 13:40:48 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 22:51 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le mar. 17 nov. 2020 22:47:04 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 21:59 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Svante Signell, le mar. 17 nov. 2020 21:56:33 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > > > Got it. Can some of the drivers be tested with software
> > > > > rendering,
> > > > > like swrast?
> > > > 
> > > > software rendering does not use drm/dri. That's already what we
> > > > are using (and have been using for years) for -vga std or cirrus.
> > > 
> > > So having more mesa packages building is worthless?
> > 
> > I don't mean it's worthless, I mean it already used to be building
> > and working fine. Now that it builds fine again, I have little doubt
> > that software rendering works fine.
> 
> My question is merely if there is any idea of submitting my patches for
> mesa, enabling builds of more mesa and other packages.

Sure! We do need mesa as a dependency for various packages. We have
always been using software rendering in the past years, but that's
completely fine enough for our needs.

Samuel