Am 12.12.2012 17:28, schrieb John Spencer: > On 12/12/2012 04:18 AM, 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. >> >> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood<scottw...@freescale.com> >> --- >> There are undoubtedly some rough edges that need to be cleaned up and >> other parts of graphics code that could be compiled out -- this is mainly >> meant to see what people think of the concept. >> >> My immediate motivation was that the QEMU-supplied pixman was being a >> pain to cross compile (especially without hacking up the generated QEMU >> makefiles to pass additional things to pixman's configure), and in >> general it would be nice to not have to carry around graphical baggage >> when running on hardware that doesn't even have a display (so I was more >> inclined to do this than to spend effort fixing the pixman build). >> --- > > very nice, i hope this one makes it upstream. > it's always good to minimize external dependencies, or make them > optional when they're unneeded in some cases.
There is already a patch by Robert Schiele on the list, let's not reinvent the wheel here. That part should be pretty uncontroversial. What this patch does on top is prone to clash with a number of ongoing refactorings so I'd rather hold that off a bit. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
