On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.go...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Well, actually I'd like to run sh4 binaries in linux-user mode, where these > are actually DirectFB applications which rely on the standard Linux > framebuffer to display things. > > In my use case, I'd like to route these ioctl in qemu to be handled by the > SDL back-end (or even a DirectFB instance running on the host) instead of > being dispatched to the native framebuffer driver, running on the host. > > Is this feature available in the current qemu code base? > > Thanks, > > -Ilyes > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.go...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Is it possible, as of today, to emulate a classic Linux framebuffer when >> > using qemu linux-user mode? >> > At a first glance, I saw in the code that >> > FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO, FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO and FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO being >> > declared by couldn't locate where they're handled. Are these hooked to >> the >> > SDL back-end? >> >> SDL is only used for system emulation. It should be possible to add >> conversions (for example, from PPC 32 bit BE to x86_64 64 bit LE) for >> FB ioctls in order to pass them to the host FB device. But what would >> be the use case for this? >> > >
