Quoting Yan Fu:
> Hi,
> 
> I am fairly new to DFB. But I wonder whether it's
> possible to make the following scenario work with DFB:
> 
> Two devices are connected somehow e.g. by TCP/IP
> One device has frame buffer and DFB support
> The other device does not but it wants to use the
> first device as its input/output
> 
> Does fusion help here? At a first glance, perhaps not.
> Fusion works with multiple processes but in one
> physical system (am I right?).
> 
> Then a natual second thought is that we implement a
> fake dfb library on the dummy device and have it
> forward all dfb requests to the other one. I guess
> this will work for simple cases like drawing lines.
> But does it work for more complicated scenarios like
> font, input buffer and etc?
> 
> Or do you have any other suggestions? Thank you very
> much!

Have a look at Voodoo:

http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main%2FNews&entry=2004-06-03-0.dok

It's exactly what you described :)

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