Re: New user getting started questions

Alyssa Ross
2022-03-15T14:06:46Z

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On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 03:08:04PM +0000, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 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.

I don't know of one. I haven't been keeping it up to date since we've
mostly switched over to cloud-hypervisor for Spectrum, but it doesn't
have any way of doing virtio-gpu (yet, porting crosvm's vhost-user-gpu
implementation is on my list).

I'll have a go at updating it in Nixpkgs and report back.

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