viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current

Contributed by rueda on 2023-04-21 from the consoleation-prize dept.

Joshua Stein (jcs@) has committed viogpu(4), which provides support for the virtio(4) GPU interface (provided by QEMU and other virtual machines) to create a wscons(4) console.

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	jcs@cvs.openbsd.org	2023/04/20 13:28:31

Modified files:
	share/man/man4 : Makefile 
	sys/arch/amd64/conf: GENERIC 
	sys/arch/arm64/conf: GENERIC RAMDISK 
	sys/dev/pv     : files.pv virtio.c virtioreg.h 
	sys/dev/wscons : wsconsio.h 
Added files:
	share/man/man4 : viogpu.4 
	sys/dev/pv     : viogpu.c viogpu.h 

Log message:
add viogpu, a VirtIO GPU driver

works enough to get a console on qemu with more work to come from
others

feedback from miod
ok patrick

Great stuff! This moves us closer to having a fully functional wscons console on virtual machines in those specific environments too. We will be watching further development closely.

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By Elvin Aslanov (rwp00) rwp.primary@gmail.com on 2023-04-21 18:55 https://rwp0.github.io/

Hooray!

Though no results found for the manpage yet to read and learn:
https://man.openbsd.org/viogpu.4
By Peter J. Philipp (pjp) nospam@delphinusdns.org on 2023-04-28 05:42

This change made me very happy because I could use the new arm64 instances at a known VPS provider. I don't have much these days but I did make a bit of money recently so I sent a small amount to the OpenBSD Foundation, unfortunately I didn't see the comments field in donations money anymore so I couldn't say that this directly was 1/3 for patrick, 1/3 for jcs and 1/3 for general OpenBSD. Thanks again!

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