What to do now after Xgl and Xegl are gone....

[David Jander]

On Tuesday 16 June 2009 22:55:18 Kalle Vahlman wrote:
>[...]
> > As far as using the SGX/TI blob for acceleration, we only say, "Good
> > luck." :3
>
> ...and this being the only way to use it, I don't see anyone finding
> it out either.
>
> For embedded devices lacking good or available gfx chip, other ways of
> using the hardware better in rendering might be more worthwhile things
> to investigate:
>
>   http://sandbox.movial.com/blog/2009/06/pixman-gets-neon-support/

Yep, for ARM-Cortex A8 users that sure sounds enticing, but I am on a PowerPC 
platform (without Altivec, that is) ;-)

But I think there is still quite something that can be gained by optimizing 
bit-blitting outines in kDrive-fbdev for PowerPC. PowerPC is a platform that 
is quite sensitive to all sorts of optimizations.

Best regards,

-- 
David Jander
Protonic Holland.