[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Improving Cairo performance on the N800

[From: Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:48:35PM -0800, ext Daniel Amelang wrote:
> - Write a new Cairo backend that targets OpenVG, since the PowerVR MBX
> has fully-accelerated OpenVG rendering. I haven't found anything about
> OpenVG + Maemo 3.0, so maybe the software infrastructure isn't there
> yet to do this.
> 
> - Something involving the OpenGL capabilities of the MBX. It doesn't
> support shaders, so it would be pretty limited. It does support
> multitexturing, so maybe a poor man's glitz is feasible.

We don't currently use the MBX block at all: there's no driver or
anything to hook into.

Cheers,
Daniel