The DRM (direct rendering manager, not the content protection stuff) graphics subsystem in the linux kernel does not have a generic 2D accelaration API. Despite an awful lot of of GPUs having more or less featureful blitter

After 8 years of doing graphics driver development in i915, i965, and misc for Intel, I have decided to take on other things. I will remain at Intel, and be working on… FreeBSD development. It’s a pretty vague gig at the moment, so I’d be happy to hear of areas in FreeBSD that you think […]