From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33064 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODSNX-0003cl-7F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 21:10:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODSNV-0005uu-Jx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 21:10:51 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([38.113.113.100]:44982) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODSNV-0005ug-CB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 21:10:49 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 02:10:23 +0100 References: <1273766038-16808-1-git-send-email-julian.pidancet@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <1273766038-16808-1-git-send-email-julian.pidancet@citrix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005160210.25323.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Julian Pidancet > The other solution would be to use the DirectFB driver for SDL which > would allow to do slightly the same as this patch. But that would mean > having to deal with an additional layer in the graphical stack, which is > not exactly what one wants from a performance or a complexity point of > view. I don't buy your complexity argument. Doesn't DirectFB-via-SDL already work? If not why not? I'm pretty sure fixing that would be way simpler than adding a whole new output backend. Paul