On 12/12/2012 10:47:04 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
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).
And those devices would have a dependency on the QEMU graphics
subsystem. Not all targets have graphics devices to be emulated.
> 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.
Sure. It wasn't meant as a long-term alternative to fixing pixman
issues, so much as as a final nudge to do something I'd wanted to do
before.
-Scott
