[PATCH] Turn shadowfb off on virtualized hardware
Adam Jackson
ajax at redhat.com
Thu Feb 17 08:08:31 PST 2011
There's no benefit to shadowfb, since the framebuffer is in the same
memory domain as host memory; all you're doing is adding extra copies.
Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
---
src/vesa.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/vesa.c b/src/vesa.c
index 61d3550..9fd166f 100644
--- a/src/vesa.c
+++ b/src/vesa.c
@@ -841,9 +841,37 @@ VESAPreInit(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn, int flags)
memcpy(pVesa->Options, VESAOptions, sizeof(VESAOptions));
xf86ProcessOptions(pScrn->scrnIndex, pScrn->options, pVesa->Options);
- /* Use shadow by default */
- if (xf86ReturnOptValBool(pVesa->Options, OPTION_SHADOW_FB, TRUE))
- pVesa->shadowFB = TRUE;
+ /* Use shadow by default, for non-virt hardware */
+ if (!xf86GetOptValBool(pVesa->Options, OPTION_SHADOW_FB, &pVesa->shadowFB))
+ {
+ switch (pVesa->pciInfo->vendor_id) {
+ case 0x1234: /* bochs vga (not in pci.ids) */
+ case 0x15ad: /* vmware */
+ case 0x1b36: /* qemu qxl */
+ case 0x80ee: /* virtualbox */
+ case 0xaaaa: /* parallels (not in pci.ids) */
+ pVesa->shadowFB = FALSE;
+ break;
+
+ case 0x1013: /* qemu's cirrus emulation */
+ if (pVesa->pciInfo->subvendor_id == 0x1af4)
+ pVesa->shadowFB = FALSE;
+ else
+ pVesa->shadowFB = TRUE;
+ break;
+
+ case 0x1414: /* microsoft hyper-v */
+ if (pVesa->pciInfo->device_id == 0x5353)
+ pVesa->shadowFB = FALSE;
+ else
+ pVesa->shadowFB = TRUE;
+ break;
+
+ default:
+ pVesa->shadowFB = TRUE;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
if (xf86ReturnOptValBool(pVesa->Options, OPTION_DFLT_REFRESH, FALSE))
pVesa->defaultRefresh = TRUE;
--
1.7.3.5
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