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From: Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: merge GGI support? [was: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] CRIS target port]
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:09:41PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:45:39PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>   
>>> What does one gain with GGI support?  I've never seen a good answer to 
>>> this.
>>>     
>>
>> GGI supports a number of display-targets:
>> http://www.ggi-project.org/targets.html
>> umong them X11, quartz, directx, fbdev, vgl, vnc, wsfb, libaa,
>> terminfo, cocoa, etc.
>>   
>
> SDL has a GGI backend.  So you can already use GGI with QEMU.
>
> So, what does it buy to have QEMU use GGI directly?

Well, I don't have SDL. What did it buy to add VNC support and cocoa
support when there was already GGI support and GGI has backends for VNC
and cocoa? ;)

It's not that this patch removes SDL, VNC or cocoa support, really.