A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 22, 2011 16:27 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: A free GMA500 graphics driver by gregkh
Parent article: A free GMA500 graphics driver

Right now it's not even for 2D acceleration.

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 22, 2011 16:32 UTC (Tue) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link] (3 responses)

Oops, sorry, you are right, it's 2d only, not accelerated.

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 22, 2011 16:54 UTC (Tue) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link] (2 responses)

2D acceleration nowadays is "just" blitcopies; there's no real use for the accelerated drawing of circles and stuff like that ;-)

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 22, 2011 23:53 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

On at least modern consumer desktop hardware the 2D functions are carried out by the same hardware bits as the 3D functions.

I don't know how the PowerVR stuff goes, though.

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 23, 2011 10:03 UTC (Wed) by ken (subscriber, #625) [Link]

What confuses me is that why the 2D stuff was ever a problem to begin with.
The Imagination hardware I worked with has never implemented anything with the actual display it's simply a hardware block that works with memory.

The display has been a different block by a different company but maybe intel outsourced the entire thing to imgtec