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.


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Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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