Article 6B12G viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current

viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current

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Joshua Stein (jcs@) hascommittedviogpu(4),which provides support for thevirtio(4)GPUinterface(provided byQEMU and other virtual machines)to create a wscons(4)console.

CVSROOT:/cvsModule name:srcChanges by:jcs@cvs.openbsd.org2023/04/20 13:28:31Modified files:share/man/man4 : Makefile sys/arch/amd64/conf: GENERIC sys/arch/arm64/conf: GENERIC RAMDISK sys/dev/pv : files.pv virtio.c virtioreg.h sys/dev/wscons : wsconsio.h Added files:share/man/man4 : viogpu.4 sys/dev/pv : viogpu.c viogpu.h Log message:add viogpu, a VirtIO GPU driverworks enough to get a console on qemu with more work to come fromothersfeedback from miodok patrick

Great stuff! This moves us closer to having a fully functional wscons console on virtual machines in those specific environments too. We will be watching further development closely.

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