Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] sdl rendering

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry the topic should be "opengl rendering".

Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am attaching a patch that adds opengl support for rendering the guest 
> framebuffer in the SDL window.
> SDL is needed anyway to open the window and handle the events.
> Opengl rendering is optional and can be turned off at both compile time 
> and in the vm configuration file.
> Some of the benefits of using opengl are:
>
> -faster rendering, less CPU intensive, especially with good graphic cards;
>
> -makes the window resizing possible and hardware accelerated, thus very 
> efficient and smooth;
> -allows other optimizations like sharing directly a buffer in vram with 
> the guest (not yet implemented).
> Regards,
>
> Stefano Stabellini
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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