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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Julian Pidancet <julian.pidancet@citrix.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 17:22:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF4024B.8010603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1005191450571.11380@kaball-desktop>

   Hi,

>> Which makes me think we should just go the direct route.  No SDL.  No
>> directfb.  No other funky library which provides us with nothing but
>> bugs.  Programming fbdev isn't that hard after all.  Especially if you
>> skip all the (IMHO pointless) video mode switching bits.
>
> Agreed, actually I was thinking the same thing.
> The only reason for using a library is to have the color/pixel conversion
> functions, that could be useful. However we have many of them already
> implemented in qemu so it shouldn't be difficult to roll our own.

Everybody implements its own conversion functions though.  It probably 
makes sense to consolidate that stuff into a small conversion library, 
probably best based on PixelFormat, and make everybody use that.

cheers,
   Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-13 15:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver Julian Pidancet
2010-05-16  1:10 ` Paul Brook
2010-05-16  1:14   ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 13:30   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 15:09     ` Julian Pidancet
2010-05-17 16:28       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 20:20   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-17 20:32     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 21:35       ` malc
2010-05-17 21:43         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 21:45           ` malc
2010-05-17 22:26             ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 22:42               ` malc
2010-05-17 22:47                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 22:55                   ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 23:17                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 22:46               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 22:49                 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 22:54                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 22:59                     ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-18  0:26                 ` [Qemu-devel] qemu usage K D
2010-05-18  8:09           ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver Kevin Wolf
2010-05-18  9:12             ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-05-18  9:23               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-18  9:29                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-05-18  9:39                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-18 10:34                     ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-05-18 11:20                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-18 13:02             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-18 22:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-19 12:06   ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-05-19 13:38     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-19 13:52       ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-05-19 15:22         ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2010-05-19 15:30           ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-05-19 16:06         ` Julian Pidancet
2010-05-19 16:30           ` Jamie Lokier
2010-05-20  7:32             ` Gerd Hoffmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-14 16:20 Julian Pidancet
2010-05-14 16:58 Julian Pidancet
2010-05-14 17:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 10:58   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-17 10:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-17 12:04   ` Julian Pidancet
2010-05-17 19:25     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-17 11:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-17 12:14   ` Julian Pidancet
2010-05-17 12:35     ` Christoph Hellwig

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