Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev accel lib

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> Good idea. But note that acceleration in kernel space will be limited to
> rectfill, rectcopy and perhaps monochrome bitmap expansion for text drawing.
> Of course these are the first things you want to accelerate in a userland
> application too.

Don't forget accelerated drawing of the penguin :-)

> You may want to take a look at fbtest (check out CVS at
> http://www.sf.net/projects/linux-fbdev/). 

Nice :-) 

As a note for a common userland library. Well it would be nice to have
such a thing. The question is would such a library be accepted as a
standard. Most likely people would still go off and do their own thing
which I have no problem with. Often the needs of people vary when it comes
to graphics. 

At present we have the following fbdev libraries that I know of:

libfbx -> General purpose library.
libfgl -> for kaffe (Java embedded devices) 
directfb -> For embedded devices?
gtk/qte -> Again for embedded devices.
libGGI -> Some fbdev wrapper.
libsvga -> Newest version uses /dev/fb. Nice for older non X programs.

Then we have a whole bunch of windowing systems.