On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:58:31AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
This commit adds the vboxvideo drm/kms driver for the virtual graphics card used in Virtual Box virtual machines to drivers/staging.
Why drivers/staging? This driver is already being patched into the kernel by several distros, thus it is good to get this driver upstream soon, so that work on the driver can be easily shared.
Last time I looked, the user/kernel api was a horrid C++ structure mess, and I couldn't tease apart the needed pieces to get everything to even build properly. I'm glad to see this go in, but is that userspace api going to stay solid? What happens when we find bugs (and odds are, there are lots of them) with that api?
Can I get some signed-off-by from teh virtual box developers here that they are ok with this work happening?
Oh, and thanks a lot for pushing for this, I appreciate it, it's just that it seems too good to be true :)
thanks,
greg k-h