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

[Anthony Liguori]

On 05/15/2010 08:10 PM, 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.
>    

Yeah, I don't buy it either.  I think performance data is probably the 
only way to justify this and I'm sceptical that if there is a 
performance advantage that it wouldn't be possible to just fix SDL's 
DirectFB support.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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