From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tih7R-0008Qx-CF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:52:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tih7L-0004BH-IS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:52:41 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:4873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tih7L-0004B8-B9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:52:35 -0500 Message-ID: <50C837BD.4020604@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:52:29 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20121212031856.GA26121@buserror.net> In-Reply-To: <20121212031856.GA26121@buserror.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Allow building without graphics support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Scott Wood Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 12/12/12 04:18, Scott Wood wrote: > QEMU is sometimes used in embedded contexts, where graphical support > is unnecessary. The ability to turn off graphics support not only > saves some space, but it eliminates the dependency on pixman. We have tons of hand-crafted pixel shuffeling code all over the place which I want replace with pixman library calls. It's a long road and will take quite some time. I wanna have pixman as core service in qemu for that, not some optional add-on. > My immediate motivation was that the QEMU-supplied pixman was being a > pain to cross compile (especially without hacking up the generated QEMU > makefiles to pass additional things to pixman's configure), We pass on cross-prefix to pixman's configure, so it should JustWork[tm]. And it actually works for windows cross builds using the mingw toolchain. If it doesn't work for your setup I'd much prefer to fix that. > and in > general it would be nice to not have to carry around graphical baggage > when running on hardware that doesn't even have a display (so I was more > inclined to do this than to spend effort fixing the pixman build). I run qemu on headless machines alot, then connect via vnc/spice ... cheers, Gerd