Re: merge GGI support? [was: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] CRIS target port]

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:45:39PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > >  
> > > > What does one gain with GGI support?  I've never seen a good answer 
> > > > to this.
> > > >     
> > >
> > > GGI supports a number of display-targets:
> > > http://www.ggi-project.org/targets.html
> > > umong them X11, quartz, directx, fbdev, vgl, vnc, wsfb, libaa,
> > > terminfo, cocoa, etc.
> > >   
> >
> > SDL has a GGI backend.  So you can already use GGI with QEMU.
> >
> > So, what does it buy to have QEMU use GGI directly?
>
> Does GGI have an SDL backend?

I don't know, but I do know that SDL has GGI backend so AFAICT, SDL 
becomes a superset of GGI :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> You're in a maze of standard graphics interfaces, all slightly different.