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

[Anthony Liguori]

Andreas Färber <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 30.07.2012 18:19, schrieb Alon Levy:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:54:27PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:25 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...] why not go all the way to qxl?
>>>>
>>>> That will give you better graphics performance with no need to hack.
>>>
>>> Well, qxl is pretty awful from what I can see so far. [...]
>> 
>> I would love to hear something more specific about this. I assume you
>> are talking about libspice-server and not the device itself, since the
>> device itself has nothing specifically matching windows.
>
> I can't comment on what Ben meant, but from my perspective the really
> awful thing about SPICE was its huge tree of dependencies, including a
> very specific version of celt that we now need to package and maintain
> specifically for SPICE. At least during the big QOM refactorings.

Ack.

This is why I've been advocating for a new PV device model that can
negotiation in full SPICE support.

Then we could keep libspice an optional dependency, but move all guests
to use a single graphics driver.  Likewise, management tools wouldn't
need to worry about multiple types of graphics cards.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Elsewhere QEMU is built around the principle of opting individual
> features in rather than requiring a whole bunch of stuff just to do a
> basic qxl compile test for patches.
>
> Andreas
>
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