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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver
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Julian Pidancet |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver |
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Mon, 17 May 2010 13:14:05 +0100 |
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On 05/17/2010 12:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 05:58:50PM +0100, Julian Pidancet wrote:
>> This patch implements a DirectFB driver for QEMU. It allows Qemu to
>> draw a VM graphic output directly in the framebuffer of the host,
>> without having to rely on X11.
>> DirectFB also provides with a generic interface take advantage of graphic
>> hardware acceleration for a bunch of different supported cards.
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> Doesn't DirectFB still require utterly broken out of tree kernel
> patches?
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I have not heard about that, sorry.
My test configuration has an i915-like Intel graphic card, and a nearly
standard 2.6.32 linux kernel. No specific patching was required.
--
Julian