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

[Alexander Graf]

On 16.05.2010, at 03:10, Paul Brook wrote:

>> 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.

Well, I can think of size as a reason. Not compiling in SDL, but directfb, 
would certainly shave off dependencies on a usually rather large SDL library. I 
also find SDL code less readable than Qemu code in general :).

That said, I don't want to take sides - just wanted to state the obvious.


Alex