On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:02 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Werner Almesberger wrote: > > Andy Green wrote: > >> This definitely is useful if you have a panic or other serious trouble > >> and no debug board, but if you're working OK it just slows boot down. > > > > Harald once mentioned that he may Glamo-accelerate the text console. > > > > (I once tried to put Xglamo's block copy code into the kernel but > > failed miserably. So it's not as easy as it seemed. Unfortunately, > > I lost my patch as well :-( ) > > > > Maybe we'll eventually get something that makes console speed a bit > > less retro ... > > Yes Graeme is doing an xorg driver for Glamo now, locking got discussed > as something that needs to be on kernel-side to match framebuffer -- as > did interrupt driven completion of accelerated operations which means > kernelside too. So maybe this will come. > It looks like there is a community team building interested in OpenGL ES support for the glamo as well. So I suspect they will have to mess in the kernel for DRI like interface as well. So I suspect if this actually gets off the ground some generic glamo access via kernel will certainly get implemented.
Graeme
