From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipZY-0007TY-C4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:54:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipZS-0003jN-2Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:54:16 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46874 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipZR-0003jF-Sk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:54:10 -0500 Message-ID: <50C8B6AC.10703@suse.de> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:54:04 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20121212031856.GA26121@buserror.net> <50C8B0A5.90805@barfooze.de> In-Reply-To: <50C8B0A5.90805@barfooze.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Allow building without graphics support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: John Spencer , scottwood@freescale.com Cc: Stefan Weil , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Robert Schiele , Gerd Hoffmann 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 >> --- >> 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 mai= nly >> 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 QEM= U >> 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 mo= re >> inclined to do this than to spend effort fixing the pixman build). >> --- >=20 > 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. Andreas --=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=F6rffer; HRB 16746 AG N=FCrnbe= rg