On Wed, 19 May 2010, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> Which makes me think we should just go the direct route. No SDL. No
> >> directfb. No other funky library which provides us with nothing but
> >> bugs. Programming fbdev isn't that hard after all. Especially if you
> >> skip all the (IMHO pointless) video mode switching bits.
> >
> > Agreed, actually I was thinking the same thing.
> > The only reason for using a library is to have the color/pixel conversion
> > functions, that could be useful. However we have many of them already
> > implemented in qemu so it shouldn't be difficult to roll our own.
>
> Everybody implements its own conversion functions though. It probably
> makes sense to consolidate that stuff into a small conversion library,
> probably best based on PixelFormat, and make everybody use that.
>
Yeah definitely
