Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver

[Paul Brook]

> The other solution would be to use the DirectFB driver for SDL which
> would allow to do slightly the same as this patch. But that would mean
> having to deal with an additional layer in the graphical stack, which is
> not exactly what one wants from a performance or a complexity point of
> view.

I don't buy your complexity argument.  Doesn't DirectFB-via-SDL already work? 
If not why not? I'm pretty sure fixing that would be way simpler than adding a 
whole new output backend.

Paul