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Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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?
>
> Does GGI have an SDL backend?

I don't know, but I do know that SDL has GGI backend so AFAICT, SDL 
becomes a superset of GGI :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> You're in a maze of standard graphics interfaces, all slightly different.
>