From: Romain D. <do...@ir...> - 2001-10-02 08:51:24
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Chris Wright wrote: > is there a standard way to access hardware acceleration without needing > root privs or X? (sort of like accessing framebuffer before /dev/fb, you > needed svgalib (root), or some X based library). Not yet, I believe. > if there isn't a way (dri is X only afaik), hows the forecast for creating > a kernel level hardware acceleration overlay, with software fallbacks? > (i am guessing this really wont put much code into the kernel, but will > have lots of modules etc). DRI is a 3D-on-XFree86 thing. It could be done to add ioctl to allow app access to fb_fillrect and fb_copyarea, and maybe fb_imageblit. But I'm not sure it could make it to the Linux tree... Yet it might worth talking about it. Stuff like microwindows could probably use it. It would be a simple ioctl wrapper around the fb_* stuff, as those are mandatory (either HW-accel or using the supplied generic functions). -- DOLBEAU Romain | l'histoire est entierement vraie, puisque | je l'ai imaginee d'un bout a l'autre do...@ir... | -- Boris Vian |