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
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