Re: Hardware acceleration in frame buffer driver

"Antonino A. Daplas" <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:03:52 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to implement hardware acceleration to a framebuffer driver, throught
> the functions fb_fillrect, fb_copyarea and fb_imageblit. So I replace the
> cfb_fillrect functions by my own, and add FBINFO_HWACCEL_FILLRECT to
> fb_info->flags. But I try to use both embbeded/QT and Nano-X, and these
> hardware accelerated functions are never called.
> 
> I did a lot of research but probably missed someting... I do not understand why
> these "needed" functions are never called ?

Unfortunately, these accelerated functions are for the console use only.  No
other app can use this functions.

Tony


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