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

Contributed by rueda on 2023-04-21 from the consoleation-prize dept.

Joshua Stein (jcs@) has committed viogpu(4), which provides support
for the virtio(4) GPU interface (provided by QEMU and other virtual
machines) to create a wscons(4) console.

    CVSROOT:        /cvs
    Module name:    src
    Changes by:     jcs@cvs.openbsd.org     2023/04/20 13:28:31

    Modified 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 driver

    works enough to get a console on qemu with more work to come from
    others

    feedback from miod
    ok 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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 1. By Elvin Aslanov (rwp00) rwp.primary@gmail.com on 2023-04-21
    18:55 https://rwp0.github.io/

    Hooray!

    Though no results found for the manpage yet to read and learn:
    https://man.openbsd.org/viogpu.4

    Reply

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