Hi, We have been testing a number of thin clients lately, but I have to say that we haven't met one which did not have an X driver :) These include everything from HP thinclients to raspberry pis, trimslice etc.
I think pixman does a pretty good job basic draw operations, but for video playback it could make sense to codec pass-through ( http://spice-space.org/page/Features/CodecPassthrough) to let the graphics driver decode it, instead of the overhead of encoding then decoding MJPEG. /Attila On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Alon Levy <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have come to know that GNU/Linux Arm ports for various arm > > platforms out there usually dont have a working X server. The GPUs > > usually lack a dedicated X server driver. That being the case arm > > platforms usually support OpenGLES/OpenVG libraries. spice-gtk arm > > port is 2D operations intensive. I believe to use an arm board as a > > thinclient for SPICE we need proper 2D rendering on the board. > > Without accelerated X server, can i use openvg? please elaborate i > > am not even sure what i said earlier is totally correct. > > > > To custom build a spice thinclient what should i look for in a > > embedded system? > > according to openthinclient.org i need a x86 proc+ working X.org+ > > 128MB ram. Is it possible to get spice-gtk arm perform well without > > a hardware/GPU accelerated X server. > > spice-gtk doesn't use GPU acceleration directly, it uses pixman, which > doesn't use that either. pixman does make use of NEON and, SIMD, IWMMXT and > IWMMXT2 instructions on arm - this is just copied from ./configure --help > of pixman's tip, no idea which of these are packaged. > > If it turns out this is not enough on your cpu you will have some work cut > out for you. I know there is at least one intel project that does 2d > rendering via OpenGL or maybe GLES (glamour I think). > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spice-devel mailing list > > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel >
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