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From: Jerald Fitzjerald <jfj@freemail.gr>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Plans for 2D acceleration
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:29:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FA6CE0.8050004@freemail.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190807127.27064.2.camel@tveimo-laptop>

Torgeir Veimo wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 04:41 -0700, Jerald Fitzjerald wrote:
>  
>
>>Is there a reason we _don't_ want these exposed to userland or
>>just nobody has taken the time to do it? 
>>    
>>
>
>You can do all of these using DirectFB. Is that not an option for you?
>
>  
>
Well, the code is already in the kernel for various cards as far as I 
can tell.
It's just a matter of exposing the functionality through some ioctl.

Won't even DirectFB benefit from that? (not to mention it'll be able to use
the features without iopl)


jf


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      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26 11:41 Plans for 2D acceleration Jerald Fitzjerald
2007-09-26 11:45 ` Torgeir Veimo
2007-09-26 14:29   ` Jerald Fitzjerald [this message]

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