Control: reassign -1 src:linux On Lu, 09 iun 14, 02:55:32, fld wrote: > Source: linux-image-3.15-rc8-amd64 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > In the past few years with the increased availability of IOMMU/Vt-d supporting > hardware, there has been an increase in the popularity of experimenting with > VGA passtrough to virtual machines via IOMMU. Currently the most bleeding edge > way of doing this is with the combination of kvm, qemu and vfio. However, > most graphics cards don't play nice with just the plain vfio and need special > considerations that need to be enabled in the kernel. > > I propose that we enable these special features called "CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_VGA" > in the kernel so that people can more easily experiment with these new cool > features. I asked the leading developer of VFIO VGA support (Alex Williamson) > if he could think of any reason why not to enable this feature by default, and > he could not think of any. The option should simply add the capability to use > the x-vga feature in Qemu. > > Here some basic information about VFIO: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vfio.txt > > Interesting presentations about VGA Passtroughs with VFIO: > http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/b/b4/2012-forum-VFIO.pdf > http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/e/ed/Kvm-forum-2013-VFIO-VGA.pdf > > There is also quite a bit of "mainstream" interest about this stuff: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162768 > > Thank you. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.15.0-rc7 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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