Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > $ yum -C search pixman > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror > === Matched: pixman > > qpixman.i386 : Modified version of pixman for spice > qpixman.x86_64 : Modified version of pixman for spice > qpixman-devel.i386 : Pi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Anthony Liguori
Gerd Hoffmann writes: > On 09/25/12 12:48, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 25 September 2012 11:37, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> On 09/25/12 11:31, Peter Maydell wrote: For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Søren Sandmann
Markus Armbruster writes: > sandm...@cs.au.dk (Søren Sandmann) writes: > >> Gerd Hoffmann writes: >> Pixman was actually included in RHEL 5.8 which was released in February this year. >>> >>> Where is it? 'yum list pixman' returns nothing ... >> >> I don't have an installation of 5.8

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Markus Armbruster
sandm...@cs.au.dk (Søren Sandmann) writes: > Gerd Hoffmann writes: > >>> Pixman was actually included in RHEL 5.8 which was released in February >>> this year. >> >> Where is it? 'yum list pixman' returns nothing ... > > I don't have an installation of 5.8 so I don't know why yum list doesn't >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Søren Sandmann
Gerd Hoffmann writes: >> Pixman was actually included in RHEL 5.8 which was released in February >> this year. > > Where is it? 'yum list pixman' returns nothing ... I don't have an installation of 5.8 so I don't know why yum list doesn't return anything, but pixman-0.22.0 certainly was include

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > Pixman was actually included in RHEL 5.8 which was released in February > this year. Where is it? 'yum list pixman' returns nothing ... thanks, Gerd

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Søren Sandmann
Peter Maydell writes: > On 25 September 2012 09:47, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young >> project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and >> must be compiled manually. > > For me "not a standard library package on RH

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Peter Maydell
On 25 September 2012 15:32, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 25/09/2012 12:48, Peter Maydell ha scritto: >> There's a big leap between "run configure, put the qemu executable >> in some generally available directory" and "you have to first get >> and build some third party library, install it somewhere,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 25/09/2012 11:31, Peter Maydell ha scritto: >> > Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young >> > project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and >> > must be compiled manually. > For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 25/09/2012 12:48, Peter Maydell ha scritto: > On 25 September 2012 11:37, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> On 09/25/12 11:31, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument >>> against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute >>> cluste

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 09/25/12 12:48, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 September 2012 11:37, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> On 09/25/12 11:31, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument >>> against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute >>> cluster machi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Peter Maydell
On 25 September 2012 11:37, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 09/25/12 11:31, Peter Maydell wrote: >> For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument >> against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute >> cluster machines here are RHEL5 and it would be pretty awkw

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 09/25/12 11:31, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 September 2012 09:47, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young >> project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and >> must be compiled manually. > > For me "not a standard libr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > While working with the pixman library in the fbdev branch and discussing > patches with Stefano Stabellini I came to the conclusion that it would > be a good idea to: > > (a) use the pixman library not just as vehicle in fbdev, > but a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Peter Maydell
On 25 September 2012 09:47, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young > project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and > must be compiled manually. For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument agains

[Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

2012-09-25 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, While working with the pixman library in the fbdev branch and discussing patches with Stefano Stabellini I came to the conclusion that it would be a good idea to: (a) use the pixman library not just as vehicle in fbdev, but as core service for all raster ops in qemu. (b) do a majo