On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Patrick McNamara <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess, in a way, this is what HQ does for VGA text. The blit of the font > glyph is handled on card. We should be able to load an HQ program as part > of the fb driver to do "acceleration" of fill and copy_area, at least. The > copy_area call would still be best handled entirely in the S3 as using HQ to > do it would involve moving a lot of data over the XP10<->S3 bridge. If all you want is a simple blt/fill engine, we can code one up pretty quick. Dedicated hardware would be way faster than using an HQ. BTW, I'm going to the SBAC-PAD conference in Brazil, so you'll have to wait a while on me to do it. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
