[OE-core] [PATCH 3/5] qemux86: support X11 when QEMU is emulating a different GPU than vmware

[Burton, Ross]

On 29 August 2014 19:20, Max Eliaser <max.eliaser at intel.com> wrote:
> My understanding is that xf86-video-modesetting is completely
> unaccelerated, whereas xf86-video-cirrus does some 2D acceleration. Is
> that not correct?

The question is what acceleration does the qemu cirrus actually
implement, and is that acceleration actually useful?  Years of working
on acceleration architectures for the intel gpu driver have generally
shown that you can't easily beat direct access to the framebuffer...

Ross