Cirrus driver for QEMU emulated device
modulename: cirrus.ko
configname: CONFIG_DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU
Linux Kernel Configuration
└─>Device Drivers
└─>Graphics support
└─>Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
└─>PCI support
└─>Cirrus driver for QEMU emulated device
In linux kernel since version 3.1 (release Date: 2011-10-24)
This is a KMS driver for emulated cirrus device in qemu.
It is *NOT* intended for real cirrus devices. This requires
the modesetting userspace X.org driver.
Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies
and can't keep up with todays needs. More background:
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/
Better alternatives are:
- stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+)
- qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice)
- virtio (DRM_VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio)
It is *NOT* intended for real cirrus devices. This requires
the modesetting userspace X.org driver.
Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies
and can't keep up with todays needs. More background:
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/
Better alternatives are:
- stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+)
- qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice)
- virtio (DRM_VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio)