[vbox-dev] [vboxvideo] Add support for PRIME

[Michael Thayer]

Update: now this has been back-ported to 5.1, so it should be in any 
future 5.1 releases.

Would you like to be on the contributors page?

Regards
Michael

22.03.2017 12:29, Michael Thayer wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> Sorry for the long delay (my local tree was not in a very buildable
> state for a while).  Committed to our subversion repository (trunk only
> for now, not 5.1) with a couple of adjustments to make it work with our
> build system and with older (pre-3.18) kernels.  The second adjustment
> is just an #ifdef for those kernels, it does not change anything when
> building on current ones.  Note that so far my testing has just been
> that it does not break things which work now.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
> 15.03.2017 22:16, Andreas Pokorny wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Here is another version of the patch due to recent makefile changes.
>> This time I also included the copyright-statement used for the other
>> parts of the module.
>>
>> regards
>> Andreas Pokorny
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Michael Thayer
>> <michael.thayer at oracle.com <mailto:michael.thayer at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello Andreas,
>>
>>     I haven not yet tried applying this, but it looks reasonable.  Could
>>     you please confirm that you are submitting the patch under the MIT
>>     licence?
>>
>>     Thanks.
>>     Regards
>>     Michael
>>
>>
>>     03.03.2017 13:16, Andreas Pokorny wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>         I have attached an SVN diff patch that will add dmabuf fd
>> support to
>>         vboxvideo. This allows running mirserver and clients or unity8 in
>>         particular in virtual box.
>>
>>
>>         regards
>>         Andreas Pokorny
>>
>>
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