From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipAR-0001IF-MP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:28:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipAJ-0004o6-6L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:28:19 -0500 Received: from furnace.wzff.de ([2a01:4f8:150:63e2::9]:60048) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipAI-0004m9-WF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:28:11 -0500 Message-ID: <50C8B0A5.90805@barfooze.de> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:28:21 +0100 From: John Spencer MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20121212031856.GA26121@buserror.net> In-Reply-To: <20121212031856.GA26121@buserror.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Allow building without graphics support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: scottwood@freescale.com Cc: Stefan Weil , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 > --- > 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. i can imagine that qemu terminal mode is often sufficient, for example when using rob landley's pre-built aboriginal linux system images.