On 12/08/2018 at 21:55, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
The at91sam9263 has a few interesting "GPU" features:
- 2D memory addressing
Data sheet says:
The LCDC can be configured to work on a frame buffer
larger than the actual screen size. By changing the
values in a few registers, it is easy to move the
displayed area along the frame buffer width and height
- 2D Graphics controller
Data sheet says:
The Two D Graphics Controller (TDGC) features a
hardware accelerator which highly simplifies drawing
tasks and graphic management operations.
The hardware accelerator makes it easy to draw lines
and complex polygons and to perform block transfers
within the frame buffer.
The TDGC also features a draw command queue that
automatically executes a more complex drawing function
that is composed of several register accesses.
The datasheet text is from: chapter 43.9 + chapter 44:
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/Atmel-6249-32-bit-ARM926EJ-S-Embedded-Microprocessor-SAM9263_Datasheet.pdf
(No NDA required)
(old memories) this 2D engine prove itself of being quite limited as the
fill polygon and clipping functions are not working.
Based on the above, would it be possible to utilise some
of these features without any dedicated userspace (mesa) support?
Any other driver that has something similar that can be used
for inspiration?
This is really an interesting question indeed.
Or is this in reality a simple GPU that requires a
dedicated GPU driver?
Sam
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Nicolas Ferre
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