From: Tom Cooksey <thomas.cooksey@nokia.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Userspace blit API
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:03:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812041203.14163.thomas.cooksey@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A0EB0A5-7DFD-413A-B82B-FBD480541E87@pobox.com>
On Thursday 04 December 2008 11:43:55 ext Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2008, at 20:41, Tom Cooksey wrote:
> >> Things like current directfb accel won't work with these fbdev
> >> drivers, mapping card regs into userspace won't be allowed.
>
> So directfb would need to use the dri api in order to work with those
> fbdev drivers?
No, I think DirectFB can just work on the fbdev interface they provide - it
would just have to drop to software fall-backs for everything. However if
libdrm provided a blit API, it would also be able to use it (maybe X could
too, not to mention Wayland).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 8:27 Userspace blit API Tom Cooksey
2008-12-04 8:58 ` Torgeir Veimo
2008-12-04 9:59 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-12-04 9:03 ` Dave Airlie
2008-12-04 10:41 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-12-04 10:43 ` Torgeir Veimo
2008-12-04 11:03 ` Tom Cooksey [this message]
2008-12-04 14:34 ` Alex Deucher
2008-12-05 18:15 ` Jesse Barnes
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