Fwd: fbdev2

[Kjell]

Hi,

Thanks for your time. That is indeed what I am looking for yes, but 
directFB hasn't been developed for 6 years now. And from reading about 
the topic, SDL was buggy and had some issues. (some other project tried 
to do the same with only SDL that directFB did)
From what I can understand, those techs are obsolete for normal use and 
there is no development in that direction.

This lead me to think fbdev2 might be the right direction, if it is 
possible to use it for the purposes of qemu. It is actively maintained 
by gstreamer, and I don't suspect that will change.

Not knowing the exact details of the requirements of qemu in such a 
situation, and the abilities of fbdev2, I can't imagine if it can and 
will work, or not. But if it could, it seems like it would be a 
worthwhile solid solution. Both gstreamer and qemu are well supported 
projects.

Kind regards,
Kjell

Den 14.08.2021 09:00, skrev Thomas Huth:
> On 11/08/2021 23.38, Kjell via wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I hate to ask stupid questions in the wrong places, but I just can't 
> > find anything and it puzzles me. Forgive me any ignorance too please.
> >
> > Is it possible, or would it be, to be able to run qemu (qemu-kvm) 
> > without X in the framebuffer using the same fbdev2 option that mplayer 
> > uses or in a similar way?
>
> I never tried, but as far as I know, the SDL library has support for 
> directfb, so maybe "-display sdl" is what you're looking for?
>
>   Thomas