Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] spapr: Add support for -vga option

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 16:40 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> Note to Matthew: cirrusdrmfb is a LOT SLOWER than offb for a similar
> SW only dumb framebuffer, probably has to do with the way it does the
> "dirty" stuff, not sure ...
> 
> Why not draw directly into the emulated vram ? 

More note to Matthew ... any objection to doing something similar for
qemu "bochs" style framebuffer ? (ia -vga std). This is the preferred
one on ppc, does 32-bpp fine and is generally simpler.

Cheers,
Ben.