Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add VirtIO Frame Buffer Support

Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-03T17:33:06Z

On 11/03/2009 05:05 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/03/2009 05:29 PM, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 11/03/2009 01:25 PM, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
>>>> not sure if i'm missing the point here, but couldn't it be
>>>> hypothetically
>>>> extended to stuff 3d (or video& more 2d accel ?) commands too ? I can't
>>>> imagine the cirrus or stdvga driver be able to do that ever ;)
>>>>
>>> cirrus has pretty good 2d acceleration. 3D is a mega-project though.
>> Cirrus has no blending/compositing hardware support.
>> Paravirtualized graphics can easily support full XRender-style
>> 2D acceleration.
>
> What do that entail? 3/4 operand raster ops?

With alpha compositing.

Paolo