From af3076e67c31ceb3e314933dd61cb68a1d5120cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:32:06 +0100 Subject: drm: flip cirrus driver status to "obsolete". Also update Kconfig help text, explaining things: Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies and can't keep up with todays needs. More background: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ Better alternatives are: - stdvga (DRM_BOCHS, qemu -vga std, default in qemu 2.2+) - qxl (DRM_QXL, qemu -vga qxl, works best with spice) - virtio (VIRTIO_GPU), qemu -vga virtio) Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann --- MAINTAINERS | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'MAINTAINERS') diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 15eadc8c58c9..b8e2bbe621a3 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4116,7 +4116,8 @@ M: Dave Airlie M: Gerd Hoffmann L: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org T: git git://git.kraxel.org/linux drm-qemu -S: Odd Fixes +S: Obsolete +W: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/ F: drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/ RADEON and AMDGPU DRM DRIVERS -- cgit v1.2.3