Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OpenGL for OS X

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I would really like to use OpenGL on non-Apple platforms.  OpenGL 
>>> gives much better scaling than SDL.  Typically, and OpenGL app has 
>>> very little platform specific code.  It would be nice if we could use 
>>> similar code here.
>>>     
>>
>> But SDL runs on many more platforms than those which have OpenGL.
>>
>> So if at all, this should be optional, and not replace SDL.
>>   
> 
> Absolutely.  My thinking was just that if we're already going to have 
> OpenGL code to support OS X (where SDL isn't an option), then we might 
> as well make it so it's usable elsewhere.

This is an SDL related issue (i.e. SDL may or may not use OpenGL to 
display graphics). Fixing SDL for Mac OS X would also be interesting.

Regards,

Fabrice.