| Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:08:57 -0400 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? |
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I have heard a lot of complaints from embedded people about having few choices for graphics chips. Many of the low end chips from ATI/NVidia are no longer in production and you are forced into buying more chip than you want. You should ask about this on embedded developer lists.
For the new X servers you have to have hardware alpha blending. Another important feature is accelerated drawing to off-screen buffers. Also, DMA command queues help a lot with parallelizing drawing.
If you implement VGA you will be able to boot and work in any x86 system without writing any code other than the BIOS.
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