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Re-rasterizing and blitting the whole screen on every change is clearly unacceptable, but there's a large gap between that and outright HW acceleration. Being s
by jsnell 14y ago
Re-rasterizing and blitting the whole screen on every change is clearly unacceptable, but there's a large gap between that and outright HW acceleration. Being smarter about redraws gets you a long way. I have used things like web browsers on unaccelerated X11, and it's been totally usable even on ARM.
- mhd 14y agoBut apart from educational purposes, why would you do that? Sure, the graphics driver is an ugly blob, but if you care that much about libre hardware/software, it would be odd buying an Raspberry Pi in the first place. Granted, "for educational reasons" is a valid subject for the Pi. Get that old Abrash book out and let the OpenGL-spoiled kids feel the pain.