From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48587 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODzCk-0005LY-1h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 08:13:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODzCi-00072v-9m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 08:13:53 -0400 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:5841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODzCi-00072k-6a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 08:13:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF1330D.2010004@citrix.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:14:05 +0100 From: Julian Pidancet MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver References: <1273856330-15161-1-git-send-email-julian.pidancet@citrix.com> <20100517114414.GA4776@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20100517114414.GA4776@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" On 05/17/2010 12:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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? > I have not heard about that, sorry. My test configuration has an i915-like Intel graphic card, and a nearly standard 2.6.32 linux kernel. No specific patching was required. -- Julian