[Intel-gfx] Hardware acceleration for blit/fillrect in GMA-HD driver(i915)

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:01:14 +0530, Neeraj N T <neerajnt at tataelxsi.co.in> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am in need to check whether the graphics driver for GMA-HD( i915) 
> provides hardware accelerated graphics functions.

No, the i915.ko does not provide an accelerated fbdev. It's a very low
priority project since we have very good acceleration layers in userspace,
and the emphasis for fbcon is to make sure that panics work. Even if we
accidentally set to the GPU.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre