Acceleration of 2D operations for kdrive

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 07:33:56 PST 2007


On 2/3/07, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:04:42PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> > For short lines, software is almost always faster; the cost of setting
> > up the line and synchronizing with the hardware swamps the benefit of
> > using it. For long lines, you fill the screen fast enough that using the
> > hardware doesn't make a huge difference. That's why I didn't bother
> > adding hardware line hooks.
>
> (FWIW, this is the case on the Nokia 770 and N800.)
>

Do the 770 or the N800 have an sort of accelerated X server or is it
just fbdev?  Just curious.

Alex

> Cheers,
> Daniel
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