From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVZeO-0000Pz-Se for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:35:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVZeM-0000OQ-Qj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:35:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVZeM-0000Nz-G0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:35:38 -0400 Received: from [194.90.9.24] (helo=mxout3.netvision.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BVZe3-0007oZ-Bx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:35:19 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.12] ([217.132.172.99]) by mxout3.netvision.net.il (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPA id <0HYO00FBXZIUE5@mxout3.netvision.net.il> for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:35:18 +0300 (IDT) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:35:16 +0200 From: Hetz Ben Hamo Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cirrus Logic In-reply-to: <40BE0913.1000704@fabianowski.de> Message-id: <40BE1DE4.10702@witch.dyndns.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <40BDC1B8.2070301@witch.dyndns.org> <40BDBB7A.1080805@fabianowski.de> <1086192451.410.237.camel@aragorn> <40BE0913.1000704@fabianowski.de> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > I don't anticipate the emulation of a graphics card itself to be an > issue. Unless, of course, that emulation infringes on some trademarks, > trade secrets, patents, the DMCA or some other rule that I can't think > of right now. What I think is problematic though is the way in which the > information needed to program the emulation is acquired. After doing some thinking, I think I found some sort of solution: A configure switch - just like ffmpeg has these days... If a company or a person wants not to take a risk - then just leave the current VGA implementation there and let the developer use a switch to use it. Else - use the newer implementations... And in case no one has looked - QEMU is all about plugins - whether it's processor, IDE, floppy, VGA, etc - you can just write another plugin just like we have ARM, PPC, SPARC ... Thanks, Hetz