freebsd-src/share/man/man4/virtio_gpu.4
Andrew Turner 02f2706606 Add a virtio-gpu 2D driver
Add a driver to connect vt to the VirtIO GPU device in 2D mode. This
provides a output on the display when a qemu virtio gpu device is
added, e.g. with -device virtio-gpu-pci.

Tested on qemu using UTM, and a Hetzner arm64 VM instance.

Reviewed by:	bryanv (earlier version)
Sponsored by:	Arm Ltd
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40094
2023-08-17 12:26:57 +01:00

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.Dd August 14, 2023
.Dt VIRTIO_GPU 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm virtio_gpu
.Nd VirtIO GPU driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device virtio_gpu"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
device driver provides support for VirtIO gpu devices to create a
.Xr vt 4
console.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr virtio 4
.Xr vt 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0.