From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu VGA endian swap low level drawing changes
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:35:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1404207310.29546.49.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B270CD.7080907@suse.de>
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 10:26 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> Windows NT 4 might use it. I remember that I had issues running NT4 with
> Cirrus emulation a while back.
Any location where one can find images legally ?
> >> Right. A quick fix would be to add a flag to force always using a shadow
> >> surface and set it in cirrus ... I'm not sure anybody will notice the
> >> performance difference.
> > I suspect we can rip out hw cursor emulation and nobody will notice the
> > difference either ...
>
> Very likely ;). Though I think we're better off keeping it around to
> make sure we're still compatible with ancient guests (Windows 3.1 might
> use it too). Making it slow however shouldn't make any difference at all.
Making it slower isn't completely pretty either. The patch series remove
all the conversion routines for 24 and 32bpp, relying instead on pixman.
We'd have to bring them back (even if they are just memcpy's).
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-01 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-17 3:07 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu VGA endian swap low level drawing changes Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 4:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-17 4:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 5:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-17 6:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 9:18 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-17 9:26 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-17 10:00 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-17 10:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 10:19 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-17 10:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 11:40 ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-17 11:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 12:05 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-17 10:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-17 11:08 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-17 11:24 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-17 11:42 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-19 12:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-19 13:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-17 11:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 11:57 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-17 21:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 22:12 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-17 22:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 23:05 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-17 23:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-18 11:18 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-18 13:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-19 9:36 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-21 5:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-22 2:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-23 1:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-30 11:14 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-30 12:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-01 8:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-01 8:26 ` Alexander Graf
2014-07-01 8:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-01 9:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-01 9:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-01 11:15 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-01 11:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-02 9:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-02 9:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-02 12:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-02 12:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 2:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 5:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 6:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 7:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 7:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 8:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 10:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 11:08 ` Alexander Graf
2014-07-06 11:13 ` Peter Maydell
2014-07-06 11:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 13:09 ` Peter Maydell
2014-07-06 20:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-07 0:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-07 10:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-07 9:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-06 5:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-01 12:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-01 8:59 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-01 9:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2014-07-01 9:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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