Hi; on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:04:35AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > The IMAGEON 100 will never be a stellar performer. It was designed for low > cost and low power, not high performance. It does have a simple blitter, and > it has a reasonable YUV overlay, but the motion compensation acceleration is > only slightly better than straight software. >
I dont think were expecting 'stellar' performance here, just reasonable will do - the current situation is ~700 k/sec bandwidth in certain xrandr orientations. > There is an O/S-independent (theoretically) acceleration layer for the > IMAGEONs, but it is ATI-proprietary, and to my knowledge is only released to > their partners. > I think parts of this are exposed in the w100 framebuffer driver ( in the sharp kernels source ), though its pretty much undocumented and I dont really wanna risk boiling a 400$ lcd poking it. > >So please if anyone from ATI is listening, please consider to support an > >XFree86 driver development! > > Didn't we just see this movie? What's their incentive to do so? The people > who are selling IMAGEON-based devices want Windows CE, and ATI is happy to > help those people with CE drivers. > ATI do mention on there Imageon page they support 'Linux mobile'. Just wondering where/what that is.... Also, I think this is a different movie. The embbeded market is different to the desktop one. Many thanks; -- Matthew Allum _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
