Re: [Fresco-devel] [Fwd: Lots of Video drivers. (te quieres hw acceleration?)]

Uhmmm, this is a interesting idea. But I wonder, how
is Fresco more viable than XFree is this manner? Plus,
how would device drivers from XFree be able to work in
Fresco? I mean after all XFree and Fresco is very
different.

Plus, isn't drivers are the concern of our consoles,
like GGI and DirectFB?

--- Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 name=Lots of Video
drivers. (te quieres hw acceleration?)
> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:53:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "J. Imlay" <[email protected]>
> To: Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]>
> Subject: Lots of Video drivers. (te quieres hw
> acceleration?)
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have read most of the stuff on the berlin projects
> web sight (well I
> shouldn't say most, but a lot of it) and I really
> don't know what to
> think of it, in particular, I like everything but
> the SVG that just
> doesn't make cence, pixel based is a good thing. It
> might just be the way
> I think about things. If you could explain why, or
> because you are
> probably quite busy, tell me where I can find why, I
> could possibly change
> my mind about the next bit.
> 
> I am working with the XFree86 Drivers and creating
> an abstraction layer
> that is like Xfree86 with out X. In otherwords, it
> uses the XFree86 binary
> video drivers and hardware acceleration, but it's
> not a program, it's just
> part of a larger project I am toying with. (a micro
> kernel based windowing
> system, for me. And who ever else likes it if such
> peoples exist)
> 
> What I'm offering is to work with you or whoever
> else on your team
> that would be more appropriate, to get the level of
> hardware support in Berlin EQUAL
> to that of XFree86, and keep it there. (this
> includes both 2D acceleration
> and 3D on hardware that supports it, but I don't
> know much about the 3D
> because it's so muckied up with GLX) You probably
> all ready know this, but
> that gets you aframe buffer with what ever supported
> acceleration features
> that particular driver offers.
> 
> Does this seem like something you'd be interested
> in?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josie Imlay
> <http://josie.atypedigital.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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