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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:44:15 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver
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To: Julian Pidancet <julian.pidancet@citrix.com>
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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 05:58:50PM +0100, Julian Pidancet wrote:
> This patch implements a DirectFB driver for QEMU. It allows Qemu to
> draw a VM graphic output directly in the framebuffer of the host,
> without having to rely on X11.
> DirectFB also provides with a generic interface take advantage of graphic
> hardware acceleration for a bunch of different supported cards.

Doesn't DirectFB still require utterly broken out of tree kernel
patches?