Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Allow building without graphics support

[Andreas Färber]

Am 12.12.2012 17:28, schrieb John Spencer:
> On 12/12/2012 04:18 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> QEMU is sometimes used in embedded contexts, where graphical support
>> is unnecessary.  The ability to turn off graphics support not only
>> saves some space, but it eliminates the dependency on pixman.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood<address@hidden>
>> ---
>> There are undoubtedly some rough edges that need to be cleaned up and
>> other parts of graphics code that could be compiled out -- this is mainly
>> meant to see what people think of the concept.
>>
>> My immediate motivation was that the QEMU-supplied pixman was being a
>> pain to cross compile (especially without hacking up the generated QEMU
>> makefiles to pass additional things to pixman's configure), and in
>> general it would be nice to not have to carry around graphical baggage
>> when running on hardware that doesn't even have a display (so I was more
>> inclined to do this than to spend effort fixing the pixman build).
>> ---
> 
> very nice, i hope this one makes it upstream.
> it's always good to minimize external dependencies, or make them
> optional when they're unneeded in some cases.

There is already a patch by Robert Schiele on the list, let's not
reinvent the wheel here. That part should be pretty uncontroversial.
What this patch does on top is prone to clash with a number of ongoing
refactorings so I'd rather hold that off a bit.

Andreas

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