Re: [Qemu-devel] Cirrus bugs vs endian: how two bugs cancel each other out

[Andreas Färber]

Am 30.07.2012 18:01, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> I'm not saying that we should remove qxl.c from QEMU.  We can continue
> to support that ABI forever.
> 
> But there's a lot of value in a new graphics interface that uses virtio
> and negotiates support for the Spice protocol.  That way, if QEMU
> doesn't have Spice support, the feature won't be exposed to the guest
> and you can still have a legacy VGA interface.
> 
> Then we can change the default.  Basic 2d commands (like blit and solid
> fill) can be done without going through libspice.
> 
> Then we can stop messing around with having multiple display types.
> It would be a huge usability improvement and would allow us to focus on
> a single graphics adapter for all architectures.

Focus maybe, but legacy and non-x86 systems will still need the existing
cirrus/vga graphics adapters. Also a reminder that Hervé and me had
prepared an IBM8514 PCI card that we will still be interested in merging
for PReP whatever virtio devices come along.

Andreas

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