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Subject[PATCH] drm: flip cirrus driver status to "obsolete".
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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Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies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 <kraxel@redhat.com>
---
MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 84dc747..feb34a3 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4037,7 +4037,8 @@ M: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
M: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
L: qemu-devel@nongnu.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
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig
index 04b3c16..ca5c0f2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig
@@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ config DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU
This is a KMS driver for emulated cirrus device in qemu.
It is *NOT* intended for real cirrus devices. This requires
the modesetting userspace X.org driver.
+
+ Cirrus is obsolete, the hardware was designed in the 90ies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)
--
1.8.3.1
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