[Linux-fbdev-devel] unified accerated interface

[Chris W. <cw...@so...>]

Hello!

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).

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).

thanks for your time =)
chris

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