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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Allow building without graphics support
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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On 12/12/2012 10:47:04 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 12 December 2012 03:18, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
> > QEMU is sometimes used in embedded contexts, where graphical support
> > is unnecessary.  The ability to turn off graphics support not only
> > saves some space, but it eliminates the dependency on pixman.
>=20
> I would expect that we'd want to use pixman in the emulation
> of graphics devices (which should be visible to the guest even
> if the host doesn't have display support).

And those devices would have a dependency on the QEMU graphics =20
subsystem.  Not all targets have graphics devices to be emulated.

> > My immediate motivation was that the QEMU-supplied pixman was being =20
> a
> > pain to cross compile
>=20
> Problems with cross compilation should be reported as bugs
> so we can fix them -- we need to fix them anyway for the more
> common case where there is host graphics support.

Sure.  It wasn't meant as a long-term alternative to fixing pixman =20
issues, so much as as a final nudge to do something I'd wanted to do =20
before.

-Scott=