On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon > program. It provides a > terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emulator based on > DRM. It is written > from scratch and needs as external dependencies only mesa (libdrm, > libgbm, libEGL, libGLESv2), > udev, xproto (build-time dep), libxkbcommon, freetype2 and currently > glib (only for unicode support). > It uses a very recent version of libxkbcommon but it should be easy to > fix ./src/kbd_xkb.c if > you use an older version (or use --disable-xkbcommon to use a very > basic keyboard handler). Awesome! Now get the distros to pick this up and turn off CONFIG_VT! :) Ville's comment about a texture atlas is a good one, if nothing else I think it should improve cache behavior. But it may be better to just do the font rendering with the CPU anyway (though cairo-gl is supposedly getting better), and leave the GL for transition effects and such. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20120328/d0946acd/attachment.pgp>
