Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Allow building without graphics support

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 12/12/2012 10:54:04 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 12.12.2012 17:28, schrieb John Spencer:
> > On 12/12/2012 04:18 AM, Scott Wood 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.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood<scottwood@freescale.com>
> >> ---
> >> There are undoubtedly some rough edges that need to be cleaned up  
> and
> >> other parts of graphics code that could be compiled out -- this is  
> mainly
> >> meant to see what people think of the concept.
> >>
> >> My immediate motivation was that the QEMU-supplied pixman was  
> being a
> >> pain to cross compile (especially without hacking up the generated  
> QEMU
> >> makefiles to pass additional things to pixman's configure), and in
> >> general it would be nice to not have to carry around graphical  
> baggage
> >> when running on hardware that doesn't even have a display (so I  
> was more
> >> inclined to do this than to spend effort fixing the pixman build).
> >> ---
> >
> > very nice, i hope this one makes it upstream.
> > it's always good to minimize external dependencies, or make them
> > optional when they're unneeded in some cases.
> 
> There is already a patch by Robert Schiele on the list, let's not
> reinvent the wheel here. That part should be pretty uncontroversial.
> What this patch does on top is prone to clash with a number of ongoing
> refactorings so I'd rather hold that off a bit.

Ah, didn't notice that -- though tying it to CONFIG_USER_ONLY doesn't  
help my use case.

-Scott