From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BiDdH-00022F-Dp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:42:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BiDdF-00021m-84 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:42:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BiDdF-00021j-3l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:42:45 -0400 Received: from [80.59.103.181] (helo=claunia.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BiDaz-0004aR-G3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:40:33 -0400 Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] re: native gfx card support Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:40:27 +0000 From: "Natalia Portillo" Errors-To: "Natalia Portillo" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi! > Basically the main thing I know about gfx support is that it=20 > should be way faster to support native cards (I've got a=20 > GeForce 4 MX 64MB DDR in my 1 Ghz iMac, for instance) instead=20 > of emulating a card. That's why I was curious if qemu will=20 > do this, as VPC7 will supposedly do. I'm not trying to rush=20 > the qemu devs or anything, I have no idea how long things=20 > 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 . Is the eternal question: Performance vs. Portability