Hello Chris, Below you'll find a link to a powerpoint presentation by Katsuya Matsubara given at CELF's 2005 TechnicalConference. It covers writing a DirectFB driver for some embedded graphics chipset. I thought it was very informative.
http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/TechConference2005Docs?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=celf0501dfbexp_final.ppt Hope that helps. Regards, Oliver Chris Stones wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > I am considering using DirectFB on an Amd GeodeLX based embedded > pc (x86) > but dont know where to start writing the driver. > > The Graphics Processor is available through AMD's Cimmarron Kernel > library, > Only Imageblit / fillrect and imageblit with Alpha are accelerated. > > If Possable, i would rather not have to write a driver, > Ideally, i would preffere to just map DirectFB's hardware > accelerated calls to the existing AMD Cimarron driver functions. > > Can anyone offer any documentation on writing DirectFB Graphics > Drivers ??? > or sugest a good place to start ? > > Im currently wading through the lastest release code, specifically > the matrox code in /gfxdrivers/matrox > > Thanks. > Chris Stones. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > directfb-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
