Re: [poky] [PATCH 4/4] fragments/qemu: add support for enabling sdl in qemu

On Tue, 2025-06-03 at 13:35 +0200, Alexander Kanavin via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> From: Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]>
> 
> This has been the default in poky's local.conf template for
> a long time, but it's not enabled directly in poky distro.
> To allow better sstate reuse and a better user experience
> on a typical laptop (qemu will pop up a graphical window directly),
> let's add this fragment and enable it in official bitbake-setup
> configurations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf b/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000000..21c1298171e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/conf/fragments/qemu/enable-native-sdl.conf
> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> +BB_CONF_FRAGMENT_SUMMARY = "Enable SDL support for direct graphical output on the build host."
> +BB_CONF_FRAGMENT_DESCRIPTION = "By default qemu is built with a internal VNC server \
> +support. To see graphical output from the guest system, one can use a VNC client to \
> +connect to it. This fragment enables Simple Directmedia Layer support, which allows \
> +seeing the graphical output from guest directly in a X/Wayland session on the build host machine. \
> +"
> +
> +PACKAGECONFIG:append:pn-qemu-system-native = " sdl"

I have to wonder whether rather than making this a fragment, we should just change the default...

Cheers,

Richard