On 16.05.2010, at 03:10, Paul Brook wrote: >> The other solution would be to use the DirectFB driver for SDL which >> would allow to do slightly the same as this patch. But that would mean >> having to deal with an additional layer in the graphical stack, which is >> not exactly what one wants from a performance or a complexity point of >> view. > > I don't buy your complexity argument. Doesn't DirectFB-via-SDL already work? > If not why not? I'm pretty sure fixing that would be way simpler than adding > a > whole new output backend.
Well, I can think of size as a reason. Not compiling in SDL, but directfb, would certainly shave off dependencies on a usually rather large SDL library. I also find SDL code less readable than Qemu code in general :). That said, I don't want to take sides - just wanted to state the obvious. Alex
