On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:14:37 +0530, Neeraj N T <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for replying. > By ' acceleration layers in user space ' are you referring to graphics > libraries like DirectFB,OpenGL..etc..? > Could you please shed some light into how they use the hardware > acceleration ? ( Like are they mmap'ing to > a graphics hardware (GMA-HD) specific video memory?)
The hardware resources are managed by the kernel, which presents the GEM api to userspace: http://lwn.net/Articles/283798/ . And the chipset documentation can be found at http://intellinuxgraphics.org/ . But it does sound like you are trying to reinvent the wheel and tie yourself into a single and very limited platform... -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
