From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Cui, Dexuan" Subject: Re: [Announcement] Updates to XenGT - a Mediated Graphics Passthrough Solution from Intel Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 04:53:08 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20140220183613.GJ3200@reaktio.net> <20140222134121.GP3200@reaktio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140222134121.GP3200@reaktio.net> Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Pasi K?rkk?inen Cc: Lars Kurth , "Tian, Kevin" , "White, Michael L" , "Cowperthwaite, David J" , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" , "Li, Susie" , "Dong, Eddie" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , "Haron, Sandra" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote on 2014-02-22: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:22:11AM +0000, Cui, Dexuan wrote: >> Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote on 2014-02-21: >>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 07:59:04AM +0000, Cui, Dexuan wrote: >>>> Hi all, We're pleased to announce an update to XenGT since its first >>>> disclosure in last Sep. >>> = >>> Are you going to work on upstreaming this stuff? Xen 4.4 will be >>> released soon(ish), so the Xen 4.5 development window starts in the near >>> future and hopefully this stuff can be upstreamed then.. >> Hi Pasi, >> We do plan to upstream but not give a timeframe so far. >> = > = > Ok. Would you like to post an article on the Xen blog about XenGT ? > I think that would be a good thing to do to get more visibility for this = feature. As I mentioned in the previous mail, we already have a blog article, which can be easily found by googling xengt: :-) https://01.org/xen/blogs/srclarkx/2013/graphics-virtualization-xengt >>> Also: Haswell ("4th generation Intel core CPU") is listed as a >>> requirement in the Setup Guide PDF.. will there be support for SNB/IVB >>> GPUs aswell? >> There is no plan for SNB/IVB. >> = > = > Is that because of some hardware limitation on earlier GPU generations, > or just a matter of amount of work needed to support XenGT on earlier > GPUs? > -- Pasi No HW limitation on earlier GPUs -- actually you can even see some unused codes about earlier generations in the linux-vgt.patch. At present we'd like to focus on HSW (and newer generation in future). -- Dexuan