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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

             reply	other threads:[~2004-07-07 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-07 14:40 Natalia Portillo [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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