Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268902AbUJUQhn (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:37:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268526AbUJUQhW (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:37:22 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:42460 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268902AbUJUQfY (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:35:24 -0400 Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? From: Alan Cox To: Timothy Miller Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4177D163.2000503@techsource.com> References: <4176E08B.2050706@techsource.com> <1098313825.12374.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4177D163.2000503@techsource.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1098372761.17096.137.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:32:43 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 20 On Iau, 2004-10-21 at 16:10, Timothy Miller wrote: > > Essentially if you can do alpha, bitblit, blit from main memory and > > a couple of fills and colour-expands X is happy. > > How about text, stipple fills, tile fills, and lines? :) They really don't seem to matter much. Text is generally a colour expand fill (ie mono -> colour bitmap expansion) or alpha blended fill. Stipples and tiles are no big deal and angled lines are used very little, and are also very cheap because they don't cause any pci fetches except for weird stuff like xor lines. The main users of those do horizontal/vertical only which means they are just rectangles... Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/