Vetter: Why no 2D Userspace API in DRM?

Posted Aug 23, 2018 18:27 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: Vetter: Why no 2D Userspace API in DRM? by nim-nim
Parent article: Vetter: Why no 2D Userspace API in DRM?

I doubt most of these devices accelerate glyph rendering. You just render them once and cache them.

They still need to be blit to screen one by one, but then we're back to the “get a rectangle from A to B” land.