From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipSh-0001Pj-UO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:47:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipSc-0001kE-4s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:47:11 -0500 Received: from mail-ie0-f173.google.com ([209.85.223.173]:40107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TipSc-0001k4-0N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:47:06 -0500 Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id e13so2204023iej.4 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:47:05 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121212031856.GA26121@buserror.net> References: <20121212031856.GA26121@buserror.net> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:47:04 +0000 Message-ID: From: Peter Maydell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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, Gerd Hoffmann On 12 December 2012 03:18, 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. I would expect that we'd want to use pixman in the emulation of graphics devices (which should be visible to the guest even if the host doesn't have display support). > My immediate motivation was that the QEMU-supplied pixman was being a > pain to cross compile Problems with cross compilation should be reported as bugs so we can fix them -- we need to fix them anyway for the more common case where there is host graphics support. -- PMM