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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Allow building without graphics support
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Allow building without graphics support |
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Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:47:04 +0000 |
On 12 December 2012 03:18, Scott Wood <address@hidden> 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).
> 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.
-- PMM