Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:30:09AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> I completely agree with Avi: Opengl has been around since 1992, and now
> you tell me that it is better not to use it because it breaks Compiz?!
> To say the least it would be a bad long term engineering decision.

It would be a bad decision *if* OpenGL were the only technical solution
to the problem. There are a variety of possible solutions with various
pluses & minuses. If it is possible to do an implementation which uses
hardware acceleration for scaling to get the same level of performance
as the OpenGL proposal, it is good sense to evaluate it. Blindly going
for OpenGL when it has known problems without evaluating alternatives
would be the bad engineering  decision.

Daniel
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