From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Stabellini Subject: Re: [PATCH] sdl rendering Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:34:01 +0000 Message-ID: <47DE8159.9020304@eu.citrix.com> References: <47DE8077.40108@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47DE8077.40108@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org sorry the topic should be "opengl rendering". Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, > I am attaching a patch that adds opengl support for rendering the guest > framebuffer in the SDL window. > SDL is needed anyway to open the window and handle the events. > Opengl rendering is optional and can be turned off at both compile time > and in the vm configuration file. > Some of the benefits of using opengl are: > > -faster rendering, less CPU intensive, especially with good graphic cards; > > -makes the window resizing possible and hardware accelerated, thus very > efficient and smooth; > > -allows other optimizations like sharing directly a buffer in vram with > the guest (not yet implemented). > > Regards, > > Stefano Stabellini > > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini