On Wed, 6 May 2009 13:17:43 +0200 Rafael Campos <meth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's planned to put some effort in KMS (Kernel Mode Settings)? > It's some performance benchmarks planned? I'd like to see the benefits > of this :) Yes, KMS is definitely "on the list" for future work. A quick note about speed: DRI isn't going to increase the speed of any operations which are already accelerated. In fact, if anything it'll slow them down a little bit, since there's an extra overhead of one ioctl and some sanity checks in the kernel. I don't know whether this will be significant or not. What DRI does do is to give us a framework where multiple applications can use different Glamo features without treading on each others' toes. I hope that the framework can be used to make much fuller use of the acceleration we have: OpenGL, video acceleration, JPEG acceleration, and so on, to give us a net speedup in the user experience. Raster's concerns about writing large amounts of platform-specific code are noted, but the chip is there: so let's see what we can make it do. Even if the results turn out to be disappointing, it's still a stimulating project for me right now. Tom _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
