Intel's FastUIDraw Is Very Promising For Fast, GPU-Accelerated Drawing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's FastUIDraw Is Very Promising For Fast, GPU-Accelerated Drawing

Intel Open-Source Technology Center developer Kevin Rogovin just finished presenting at this year's XDC2016 conference in Helsinki. Rogovin presented on the promising 01.org project FastUIDraw...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XDC2016-Fast-UI-Draw

[davidbepo]

could this be used as a replace for sna on wayland?
that would be cool

[chuckula]

This looks like a very interesting piece of technology and it's nice to see more software that actually uses the GPU for rendering graphics since well.... that's why the GPU is there in the first place.

Additionally, it looks like this renderer can be used with both X11 and Wayland efficiently so that's another big bonus.

[treba]

could this be used as a replace for sna on wayland?
that would be cool

If I understand it correctly, it's not a 2d driver like sna but a graphics library like cairo. It could be adopted by firefox or gnome for example.

[Shnatsel]

Seems to be a direct competitor for Mozilla's WebRender as used in Servo.

[davidbepo]

If I understand it correctly, it's not a 2d driver like sna but a graphics library like cairo. It could be adopted by firefox or gnome for example.

2d accel under wayland is different than on xorg, afaik cairo skia or clutter can be used so why not this?

[quikee]

2d accel under wayland is different than on xorg, afaik cairo skia or clutter can be used so why not this?

Sure it can be used with wayland. However there is no 2D "acceleration" like SNA or similar under wayland, so either you do it on the CPU like cairo, skia or using OpenGL (or Vulkan) - but in both cases you have to do it client side.

[Amaranth]

Seems to be a direct competitor for Mozilla's WebRender as used in Servo.

WebRender is for CSS styling/transforms, Servo is currently using Mozilla's Azure library for <canvas> rendering, I believe with the Skia backend. They could switch to this or add an Azure backend for this and use it alongside WebRender.

[cj.wijtmans]

is it intel specific? If so then it is pretty much useless.

[chuckula]

is it intel specific? If so then it is pretty much useless.

Nothing about this is Intel specific unless other GPUs can't use industry standard shaders all of the sudden.
It's good to see yet another piece of cross-platform technology come out of Intel, just like Intel developers spearheaded the development of other cross-platform technologies likde Wayland, DRI, VA-API, etc. etc. etc.