diff -r 41300fa6a67c -r f7bc934e204c doc/src/platforms/emb-HwAcc-LinuxEmbedded.qdoc --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/src/platforms/emb-HwAcc-LinuxEmbedded.qdoc Wed Mar 31 11:06:36 2010 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +/**************************************************************************** +** +** Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). +** All rights reserved. +** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com) +** +** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit. +** +** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$ +** No Commercial Usage +** This file contains pre-release code and may not be distributed. +** You may use this file in accordance with the terms and conditions +** contained in the Technology Preview License Agreement accompanying +** this package. +** +** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage +** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser +** General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software +** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the +** packaging of this file. Please review the following information to +** ensure the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 requirements +** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html. +** +** In addition, as a special exception, Nokia gives you certain additional +** rights. These rights are described in the Nokia Qt LGPL Exception +** version 1.1, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package. +** +** If you have questions regarding the use of this file, please contact +** Nokia at qt-info@nokia.com. +** +** +** +** +** +** +** +** +** $QT_END_LICENSE$ +** +****************************************************************************/ + +/*! + + \page qt-embeddedLinux-accel.html + + \target Hardware Acceleration with Qt for Embedded Linux + + \title Qt for Embedded Linux Hardware Accelerated Graphics + \ingroup qt-embedded-linux + + + \input platforms/emb-hardwareacceleration.qdocinc + + \section1 Windowing on Embedded Linux with Hardware Accelerated Graphics + + Qt for Embedded Linux includes its own windowing system, QWS. QWS was + designed in 1999, well before graphics acceleration was available for + embedded devices. It does a great job providing a lightweight window + manager including all the expected functionality such as arbitrary + windows that can be moved, resized, minimized, etc. Getting QWS to work + with GPUs is very challenging, particularly with OpenGL and OpenVG + because there is no standard way in Linux to share textures across + processes. Some silicon vendors provide private APIs to allow texture + sharing, others do not. These limitations are documented under the + sections describing each type of accelerated hardware APIs. The simplest + most generic support for accelerated graphics is a full screen single + process single window. + + \section2 General options + \list + \o QWS, not accelerated, allows arbitrary windowing with multiple + processes drawing on the screen. + \o X11 with an accelerated X11 driver provided by the silicon + vendor. Like QWS, this allows arbitrary windows with multiple + processes drawing on the screen. Our experience is that there is + some overhead from X11 which will adversely affect framerates. + Additionally, our experience is that the drivers from silicon + vendors are still maturing. + \o Full screen single process single window. This will always work. + Some additional capabilities are available and are documented in + the acceleration specific API sections. + \endlist + + \section1 Supported Hardware Accelerated Graphics APIs + + This table shows which Hardware Accelerated Graphics APIs currently + supported by Qt. + + \table + \header + \o Supported APIs + \o API Version + \row + \o \l {Qt for Embedded Linux and OpenGL}{OpenGL ES} + \o 1.x and 2.x + \row + \o \l {Qt for Embedded Linux and OpenVG}{OpenVG } + \o 1.1 + \row + \o \l {Qt for Embedded Linux and DirectFB}{DirectFB} + \o 2.0 + \endtable + + +*/