How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:16:37 +0530 "Vishwas P S" <vishwas.ps at gmail.com> babbled:

> Can the display/video card recognize two planes (a BG and an FG) .. If yes,
> it would be very easy to overlay one (FG )onto the other and the app/driver
> generating the video(FG) data need not worry abt graphics FB and delegate
> the job of combining to the hardware ?
> 
> Is this a possibility on the Glamo ?

no.

> - Vishwas
> (Am sorry if this is an irrelavent question ... i've seen this on the
> Freescale chipset that i work on .. so am just curious to know if this is a
> possibility)
> 
> 
> On 5/8/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster at openmoko.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 8 May 2008 11:04:37 +0800 "Bin Chen" <binary.chen at gmail.com>
> > babbled:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just take a look at media player source code, seems the mplayer use
> > > the fbdev directly instead of X. So I think there are two fbdev in
> > > system? One for X the other for mplayer?
> >
> > nup. there can be only one. (yes - bad quote...) :) yes. they will
> > conflict. if
> > both draw at once... you will get artifacts.
> >
> > > Otherwise it will conflict.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Bin
> > >
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