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    staging: vboxvideo: Add vboxvideo to drivers/staging · dd55d44f
    Hans de Goede authored
    
    
    This commit adds the vboxvideo drm/kms driver for the virtual graphics
    card used in Virtual Box virtual machines to drivers/staging.
    
    Why drivers/staging? This driver is already being patched into the kernel
    by several distros, thus it is good to get this driver upstream soon, so
    that work on the driver can be easily shared.
    
    At the same time we want to take our time to get this driver properly
    cleaned up (mainly converted to the new atomic modesetting APIs) before
    submitting it as a normal driver under drivers/gpu/drm, putting this
    driver in staging for now allows both.
    
    Note this driver has already been significantly cleaned up, when I started
    working on this the files under /usr/src/vboxguest/vboxvideo as installed
    by Virtual Box 5.1.18 Guest Additions had a total linecount of 52681
    lines. The version in this commit has 4874 lines.
    
    Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org
    Cc: Michael Thayer <michael.thayer@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Thayer <michael.thayer@oracle.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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