Am 30.07.2012 18:01, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > I'm not saying that we should remove qxl.c from QEMU. We can continue > to support that ABI forever. > > But there's a lot of value in a new graphics interface that uses virtio > and negotiates support for the Spice protocol. That way, if QEMU > doesn't have Spice support, the feature won't be exposed to the guest > and you can still have a legacy VGA interface. > > Then we can change the default. Basic 2d commands (like blit and solid > fill) can be done without going through libspice. > > Then we can stop messing around with having multiple display types. > It would be a huge usability improvement and would allow us to focus on > a single graphics adapter for all architectures.
Focus maybe, but legacy and non-x86 systems will still need the existing cirrus/vga graphics adapters. Also a reminder that Hervé and me had prepared an IBM8514 PCI card that we will still be interested in merging for PReP whatever virtio devices come along. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
