On 12 December 2012 03:18, Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> 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

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