Triton: DirectX 11 driver for QEMU

9 points by hoistbypetard

mdaniel

I honestly don't even know if it's worth pointing out the "ai cures all ills" perspective anymore. I guess we need a humancoding tag and just assume all the rest have that other tag

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/bringup-notes-building-triton/#:~:text=I%20want%20to%20make%20an%20argument%20for%20how%20AI%20tools%20cannot%20replace%20developers%20but%20instead%20can%20amplify%20their%20work

for clarity, I didn't make any suggestions to the tagging for this submission

beto

TIL about scroll to text fragments!
hoistbypetard

Thanks for pointing it out. I missed it, probably because I jumped straight to the build section, wanting to see just how cursed this must be.

I probably wouldn't have shared if I'd seen that post first. I hate looking to see where the bots come into play, and didn't do it this time in part because the projects (UTM and QEMU) are old enough I wasn't expecting it.
vbernat

At least, once you understand the convention used for attribution, this is very honest.

jcelerier

Second, there is a licence incompatibility between VirtualBox’s GPLv3 and virglrenderer’s MIT License or QEMU’s LGPLv2. VirtualBox’s code can’t be integrated but we did learn some valuable insight from it.

in the existing framework of copyright, just like you can't legally read proprietary code and then make your own reimplementation under a different license I don't think it's legal to license-wash GPL code like this, without clean-room reverse engineering. Copyleft is still copyright. Of course copyright in itself is pretty done as an idea in 2026 but still..