Re: [PATCH v3 03/14] ui/cocoa: Adds non-app runloop on main thread mode

[Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>]

On 2024/09/28 17:57, Phil Dennis-Jordan wrote:
> Various system frameworks on macOS and other Apple platforms
> require a main runloop to be processing events on the process’s
> main thread. The Cocoa UI’s requirement to run the process as a
> Cocoa application automatically enables this runloop, but it
> can be useful to have the runloop handling events even without
> the Cocoa UI active.
> 
> This change adds a non-app runloop mode to the cocoa_main
> function. This can be requested by other code, while the Cocoa UI
> additionally enables app mode. This arrangement ensures there is
> only one qemu_main function switcheroo, and the Cocoa UI’s app
> mode requirement and other subsystems’ runloop requests don’t
> conflict with each other.

gtk and sdl need to run in the main thread so stealing the main thread 
by setting qemu_main will break them. Please investigate the possibility 
of running CFRunLoop in another thread.

> 
> The main runloop is required for the AppleGFX PV graphics device,
> so the runloop request call has been added to its initialisation.

Please move this patch before any other patches that require it.

Regards,
Akihiko Odaki