From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z70wF-0001Jq-Qw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:35:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z70wB-0004Mp-C0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:34:59 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]:36086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z70wB-0004MW-5F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:34:55 -0400 Received: by wicnd19 with SMTP id nd19so75226216wic.1 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 05:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <558800EB.10604@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:34:51 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5587F8EA.8030403@msgid.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <5587F8EA.8030403@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Status of SDL2 and GTK displays: can we make display modular? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Tokarev , qemu-devel Cc: Gerd Hoffmann On 22/06/2015 14:00, Michael Tokarev wrote: > With loadable display backend it will be the last bastion > for many people who are asking for "minimal QEMU for > servers" which is supposed to not have any X deps. > I started working on loadable display backend a few > years ago, but quickly discovered that SDL1 can't be > loaded dynamically, at least on some platforms where > it substitutes main() function in order to do some > initialization (as if there's no support for constructors). > > So now I'm asking again whenever current GTK and SDL2 > supports are complete enough to replace SDL1. SDL2 audio is broken, so strictly speaking no. Paolo