Re: [Qemu-devel] Android Goldfish on QEMU

[Peter Maydell]

On 30 May 2012 12:37, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 30.05.2012 00:30, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>> On 28 May 2012 13:28, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Is goldfish still a relevant Android dev platform?  In other words -
>>> would goldfish be useful to Android developers or just cool for QEMU
>>> hackers and "old-school" Android enthusiasts?
>>
>> I would suggest not, unless we're going to actually solve
>> the "accelerate guest OpenGL(ES)" issue in mainline QEMU...
>
> Andrzej sent patches for that, didn't he?

Yes indeed, and he is not the first to attempt it. However
there remains no acceleration *in mainline*. (Plus for Android
emulator compatibility we'd need to have our implementation
match the guest-to-QEMU ABI used by Google's implementation,
which seems unlikely.)

-- PMM