From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:13:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4177D20F.2080205@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910410201808c0796c8@mail.gmail.com>
Jon Smirl wrote:
> I have heard a lot of complaints from embedded people about having few
> choices for graphics chips. Many of the low end chips from ATI/NVidia
> are no longer in production and you are forced into buying more chip
> than you want. You should ask about this on embedded developer lists.
>
> For the new X servers you have to have hardware alpha blending.
> Another important feature is accelerated drawing to off-screen
> buffers. Also, DMA command queues help a lot with parallelizing
> drawing.
DMA not only allows for more parallelism, but it's also more efficient
to transport commands and image data using DMA than with PIO, particular
on some platforms which do not try to optimize PIOs.
> If you implement VGA you will be able to boot and work in any x86
> system without writing any code other than the BIOS.
I don't think we can get away without supporting some minimal VGA
functionality.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 165+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 22:02 HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 22:17 ` Andre Eisenbach
2004-10-21 1:31 ` Jon Valvatne
2004-10-21 16:09 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-24 19:47 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 22:19 ` HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-10-24 8:24 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-24 14:26 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-10-20 22:26 ` HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? David Lang
2004-10-21 14:46 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 17:25 ` David Lang
2004-10-21 18:15 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 18:32 ` Antonio Vargas
2004-10-22 9:53 ` Raphael Jacquot
2004-10-24 9:03 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-25 1:33 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-10-25 1:48 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-10-25 2:29 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-22 10:16 ` Christian Leber
2004-10-22 17:31 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 19:30 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-22 17:05 ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-10-22 17:12 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-26 2:36 ` Dave Airlie
2004-10-26 3:55 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-20 22:28 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-21 14:51 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 22:03 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-20 22:29 ` Kasper Sandberg
2004-10-21 14:53 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 15:06 ` Simon Braunschmidt
2004-10-21 18:00 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-20 23:10 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 15:10 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 15:25 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-21 18:03 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 19:30 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-22 17:15 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 1:08 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-21 1:11 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-21 2:00 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-10-21 16:08 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 16:34 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-10-21 23:38 ` Jan Knutar
2004-10-22 4:30 ` Jan Rychter
2004-10-22 17:00 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-22 17:00 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-22 18:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-22 19:22 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-22 19:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-22 19:56 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-22 20:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-22 20:27 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-23 17:20 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-23 21:17 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-24 0:06 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-22 20:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-22 19:32 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-24 10:40 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-25 15:39 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 21:57 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-10-22 9:48 ` Raphael Jacquot
2004-10-21 20:23 ` "Fernando O. Korndörfer"
2004-10-22 9:02 ` Raphael Jacquot
2004-10-21 15:13 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-10-21 15:36 ` Shaun Kruger
2004-10-21 18:05 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 19:30 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-22 8:49 ` Adrian Cox
2004-10-22 20:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-23 13:17 ` Adrian Cox
2004-10-22 20:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-22 22:07 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-24 10:45 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-25 15:47 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-28 9:07 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-29 16:00 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 1:48 ` HARDWARE:Graphics Cards or TOE? Nuno Silva
2004-10-26 20:50 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 2:29 ` HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? Kurt Wall
2004-10-21 16:10 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 16:22 ` Pascal Patry
2004-10-21 12:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-21 13:14 ` Simon Braunschmidt
2004-10-21 17:34 ` Jurriaan
2004-10-21 16:26 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 17:42 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 19:09 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 17:53 ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-10-21 23:02 ` Florian Schmidt
2004-10-24 1:04 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-22 1:08 ` Rene Herman
2004-10-23 5:40 ` Kevin Puetz
2004-10-23 17:02 ` Rene Herman
2004-10-23 22:19 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-24 11:10 ` Rene Herman
2004-10-22 10:57 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-22 19:47 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-10-22 20:15 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-10-25 15:29 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-25 15:53 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-25 16:32 ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-10-28 9:37 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-28 11:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-28 12:21 ` David Greaves
2004-10-29 16:04 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-22 22:27 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-23 14:36 ` Markus Törnqvist
2004-10-24 8:18 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-25 11:54 ` Stuart Longland
2004-10-25 16:38 ` Lars Roland
2004-10-25 17:08 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-26 21:02 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-26 21:38 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-25 22:52 ` Tonnerre
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-20 23:48 Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 0:30 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-10-21 0:47 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-22 20:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-21 1:25 ` Zan Lynx
2004-10-21 15:52 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 4:48 Albert Cahalan
2004-10-21 16:19 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 15:54 John Ripley
2004-10-21 18:09 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 21:32 ` Baruch Even
2004-10-25 23:30 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-10-21 17:08 Greg Buchholz
2004-10-22 2:18 ` Tim Connors
2004-10-21 17:44 John Ripley
2004-10-21 18:26 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 21:36 ` Greg Buchholz
2004-10-21 22:40 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-21 23:25 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-21 23:40 ` Greg Buchholz
2004-10-22 16:48 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-22 16:50 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-22 17:41 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-25 23:10 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-26 0:32 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-10-22 15:59 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2004-10-22 3:47 Roy Butler
2004-10-22 17:04 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-24 18:17 ` Mail Lists
2004-10-25 12:17 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-10-22 10:31 John Ripley
2004-10-22 12:58 ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
2004-10-22 17:33 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-22 17:15 Stephen Lewis
2004-10-23 4:45 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-23 7:06 ` Stephen Lewis
2004-10-23 19:06 Bodo Eggert
2004-10-25 1:44 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-10-25 8:23 ` Vojtech Pavlik
[not found] <6.1.2.0.1.20041026082223.0231edd8@mail.javagear.com>
2004-10-26 15:44 ` Timothy Miller
2004-10-26 16:35 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-26 16:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-26 21:14 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-26 21:41 ` Timothy Miller
2004-11-17 14:35 Sid Boyce
2004-11-17 14:46 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-23 13:47 ` Karel Kulhavy
2004-11-23 22:48 ` Timothy Miller
2004-11-24 1:22 ` Sid Boyce
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