On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 16:42, Hesham Mahmoud wrote: > My question is about supporting a chip that doesn't have a > framebuffer interface as it hides the graphics memory. All supported > graphics operations has to be done by the hardware thru certain commands > (even pixel set or read). My questions are: > > 1- Is it possible using XFree code or the X sample server to support such > chip? > > 2- From where to start the porting process? From the X sample docs, it > seems I have to rewrite all the DDX part. Is that all?
Before doing that, consider using a shadow framebuffer with a custom Update function. The fbdev driver is among the most current and advanced wrt this. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
