[Spice-devel] [PATCH v2 spice-protocol 2/2] Add unix GL scanout messages

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

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> > 
> > If you create a "primary" surface with surface_create, that's
> > basically all you need to start displaying. It could quite easily
> > learn to take a shm fd while keeping the rest of the Spice
> > qxl/2od/canvas semantic.
> 
> But then you still stream all the qxl commands and image data over the
> socket, so you don't save much compared to non-shm case.

I mean you could just share a QXL primary surface, display it and not draw into it.