From: "Natalia Portillo" <claunia@claunia.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] re: native gfx card support
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:40:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BiDdF-00021m-84@lists.gnu.org> (raw)
Hi!
> Basically the main thing I know about gfx support is that it
> should be way faster to support native cards (I've got a
> GeForce 4 MX 64MB DDR in my 1 Ghz iMac, for instance) instead
> of emulating a card. That's why I was curious if qemu will
> do this, as VPC7 will supposedly do. I'm not trying to rush
> the qemu devs or anything, I have no idea how long things
> like that would take to implement.
Is a good idea but with a very difficult problem.
For making this VPC7 will use a kernel driver.
If qemu wants to make the same will have to write a driver for Linux,
another for Win32, another for MacOS X, another for FreeBSD, another for
<put here your favourite HOST system>.
Is the eternal question: Performance vs. Portability
next reply other threads:[~2004-07-07 14:42 UTC|newest]
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2004-07-07 14:40 Natalia Portillo [this message]
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2004-07-07 5:56 [Qemu-devel] re: native gfx card support Fred Hope
2004-07-07 6:20 ` Leigh Dyer
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