Re: [Qemu-devel] SDL2 issues

[Thomas Huth]

On 20.10.2017 12:29, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 13:05 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> After we tried to switch from SDL1 to SDL2 in Debian qemu,
>> we receives quite some reports about various issues.
>>
>> We use 2.10.1 version of qemu.
>>
>> Example of the issues: http://bugs.debian.org/879193
> 
> Doesn't reproduce.
> 
>> http://bugs.debian.org/870025 - a few patches at the bottom
> 
> Those patches should go to the mailing list.
> 
>> http://bugs.debian.org/878087
> 
> Yes, -k is simply not supported with sdl2.
> Those remappings should be done in the guest instead.
> 
>> What's the status of SDL2 support in qemu? I've seen it is
>> the default now if SDL2 is present on the system (it was
>> SDL1 before).
> 
> Yep.  Long term I want drop SDL1, this is the first step.
> 
>> Also, what's the status of SDL _audio_ support, is it needed
>> at all once we have alsa, pa and oss?
> 
> Dunno how well mixing sdl display with non-sdl audio works.  Feel free
> to send a patch dropping sdl audio to the list to check what people
> think about that ;)

I think we've had that topic before: SDL audio is still required for
some non-Linux systems like Haiku, so please don't remove it, even if
SDL audio still needs some love with SDL2 to get really usable there again.

 Thomas