Re: merge GGI support? [was: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] CRIS target port]

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:09:41PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>> Bernhard Fischer wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:45:39PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>>>> What does one gain with GGI support?  I've never seen a good answer to 
>>>> this.
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>>> 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.
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>> SDL has a GGI backend.  So you can already use GGI with QEMU.
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>> So, what does it buy to have QEMU use GGI directly?
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> 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? ;)
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I can't comment about cocoa but the GGI support for VNC isn't very 
good.  Plus, I wanted to add new VNC extensions for virtualization.

If the only argument for adding GGI is so that you don't have to install 
libsdl, then does that mean that we should have an X11, fbdev, etc. 
backend for people who don't have GGI installed?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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