Re: New user getting started questions

Thomas Leonard
2022-03-13T15:08:55Z

On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 12:59, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
>
> Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 11:37, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
> >>
> >> Have you seen the new mechanism for Wayland over virtio-gpu context
> >> types that Google are moving towards? It's supported in mainline Linux
> >> now, and in Sommelier. I'd expect virtio-wl to go away at some point in
> >> favour of that.
> >
> > Ah, is that released already? I saw you mentioned it in your handy
> > graphics write-up, but I thought it wasn't due until Linux 5.16:
> > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtIO-Linux-5.16-Ctx-Type
>
> You're right. They've just made it toLinus's git tree. But they should
> be ready for testing if you're brave! :P

I'm happy to test it now with Linux 5.16, but I think I need a newer
crosvm too. Looks like support got added in
https://github.com/google/crosvm/commit/231a54f36fbfb90ebac152d66f937af3644f6676,
so it should be in 94.14150.

Is there a new-enough package for crosvm available somewhere? NixOS
only has 81.12871.0.0-rc1, and spectrum seems to be on
91.13904.0.0-rc2.

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