Virtualizing The Gallium3D Graphics Stack

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Virtualizing The Gallium3D Graphics Stack

Nearly two months ago we first reported on the Gallium3D driver that few knew about in the form of a Gallium3D driver that targeted the Xen virtualization platform similar to what VMware now does with its virtual Gallium3D driver for offering hardware accelerate on guest operating systems via Gallium3D. Over a number of months last year was this new Gallium3D driver, which now there is more information...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODMzMg

[V!NCENT]

Holy shit isn't this the DRM group? If so this is hela good news. If they use as much as a single GPL'd bit of code then they have to open source a huge chunk of DRM!

Hahaha fail! Looking forward to that!

[MostAwesomeDude]

We'll see if this is worth looking into. He doesn't want to maintain the code, which is one problem, and it's based on a very old Gallium with a very different interface, which is another.

Holy shit isn't this the DRM group? If so this is hela good news. If they use as much as a single GPL'd bit of code then they have to open source a huge chunk of DRM!

Hahaha fail! Looking forward to that!

Fail less, please. These are the folk that do Trousers and other open-source TPM-based projects. These are good people. Furthermore, all of Mesa, including Gallium, is X11-licensed, not GPL.

[philcostin]

I guess this was the logical next step because I always figured they'd want to do this.

[drag]

I wonder if the SPICE folks would be interested in something like that. Their desktop solution depends entirely on paravirt video drivers.