On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 00:48 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > What kind of framebuffer architecture is the Neo going to use? Is > there graphics acceleration of any kind? Or is the processor's own > framebuffer hardware being used directly? > > I've been doing some framebuffer graphics on the Zaurus SL-6000; it > has a TC6393 chip, which is relatively primitive but at least it can > draw lines and filled rectangles without having to set every pixel one > by one. > > I just discovered this open standard for vector graphics acceleration > on mobile devices, called OpenVG: > > http://www.khronos.org/openvg/ > > Apparently the idea is to define an API and a test and benchmark > suite, so applications (or whole windowing systems) will be portable > between devices, but some devices will accelerate more functions than > others (and the benchmarks will reveal this). > > Any plans to implement that on the Neo? >
Well, you would want to add openvg support lower than X11. You should talk to the X and Cairo developers about this. For the OpenMoko uses, Cairo offers hardware acceleration through Glitz, soooo....and Cairo has been in GTK since 2.8... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
