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+/*!
+
+ \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
+
+
+*/