qemu & hardware gfx acceleration

So the Google Android team just posted this: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/hsDu/~3/OCt1AQzfyWI/faster-emulator-...

Which shows their device emulator running w/ hardware acceleration. Since I know they started with qemu, I was curious if there was any details as to if these sorts of changes were making it back upstream to qemu, or if qemu had its own plans for hardware acceleration?

Unfortunately there's little technical details in the post above. The video is clearly running on OS X, so I'm not sure if this will also be usable w/ Linux hosts, but I could be wrong there.

thanks -john