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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:49:05 +0000
From:      Miguel Clara <miguelmclara@gmail.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <dumbbell@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CFT: Update to xf86-video-ati 7.5.0
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron <dumbbell@=
freebsd.org
> wrote:

> On 31.10.2014 16:53, Miguel Clara wrote:
> > Agreed, but ideally one could change as needed... ofc it will always me=
an
> > restart Xorg... IFAIK  you can do it in Linux.
>
> Yes, when we grow support for video cards only used to render things,
> you won't have to restart anything.
>
> > On another note, as I've refereed in the other report, my perfect
> scenario
> > for this laptop would be using the intel on host and pass-trough the at=
i
> to
> > virtualized guest... vbox is not and option and AFAIK bhyve is far from
> > that too, but maybe Xen will be a solution soon :)
>
> I don't know for Xen, but even on Linux, GPU virtualization in KVM isn't
> for tomorrow. Red Hat is working on the subject through the Virgil
> project[1].
>
Just to add some info on this about xen:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough_Tested_Adapters


>
> > thanks for you're time on this btw, please continue the good work
>
> You're welcome :) You helped a lot to diagnose the problem and test the
> patch! An update to xserver 1.14 is almost ready for a CFT. This will
> include the patch you tested.
>
> [1] https://virgil3d.github.io/
>
> --
> Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron
>
>



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