Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] unified accerated interface

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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).

Romain Dolbeau answered:

> 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...

Oups, I forgot to check the header, and thought the original message was
on linux-console, not linux-fbdev.

My comments apply to the new "Ruby" framework, not to the current
2.2/2.4 stuff. Those use cell-based copy and erase (a cell contain one
character), where Ruby use pixel-based copy and fill, much more
flexible.

I've hacked a patch to add the two IOCTLS (for fillrect and copyarea),
it's less than 90 lines. Maybe it's worth adding to Ruby ?

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