RE: [RFC v1 0/1] ui: Add a Wayland backend for Qemu UI

2021-06-24 Thread Kasireddy, Vivek
Hi Gerd, > > Why does Qemu need a new Wayland UI backend? > > The main reason why there needs to be a plain and simple Wayland backend > > for Qemu UI is to eliminate the Blit (aka GPU copy) that happens if using > > a toolkit like GTK or SDL (because they use EGL). The Blit can be eliminated > >

Re: [RFC v1 0/1] ui: Add a Wayland backend for Qemu UI

2021-06-24 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 09:10:39PM -0700, Vivek Kasireddy wrote: > Why does Qemu need a new Wayland UI backend? > The main reason why there needs to be a plain and simple Wayland backend > for Qemu UI is to eliminate the Blit (aka GPU copy) that happens if using > a toolkit like GTK or SDL (because

Re: [RFC v1 0/1] ui: Add a Wayland backend for Qemu UI

2021-06-23 Thread no-reply
Patchew URL: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210624041040.1250631-1-vivek.kasire...@intel.com/ Hi, This series seems to have some coding style problems. See output below for more information: Type: series Message-id: 20210624041040.1250631-1-vivek.kasire...@intel.com Subject: [RFC v1 0/1] ui: Add

[RFC v1 0/1] ui: Add a Wayland backend for Qemu UI

2021-06-23 Thread Vivek Kasireddy
Why does Qemu need a new Wayland UI backend? The main reason why there needs to be a plain and simple Wayland backend for Qemu UI is to eliminate the Blit (aka GPU copy) that happens if using a toolkit like GTK or SDL (because they use EGL). The Blit can be eliminated by sharing the dmabuf fd -- as