Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu VGA endian swap low level drawing changes

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 10:20 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Right. A quick fix would be to add a flag to force always using a shadow
> > surface and set it in cirrus ... I'm not sure anybody will notice the
> > performance difference.
> 
> I suspect we can rip out hw cursor emulation and nobody will notice the
> difference either ...

So I'd say let's leave it as-is with the known breakage. Forcing shadows
means bringing back the drawing/conversions routines for 24 & 32 which
would suck.

If somebody manages to find a guest that's affected, they can tell us and
I'll look into fixing it.

Cheers,
Ben.