Possible XO Graphics Optimization Technique

[Erik Blankinship]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org>wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> As many of you are aware, work is being done to improve the graphics
> performance of various XO laptop platforms.
>
> So in an attempt to improve things further, I looked into optimizing the
> data Sugar sends to the video subsystem itself.
>
> I think I have made some improvements, and put up some samples of my Sugar
> interface work at http://www.greenfeld.org/1April2011/ .  Feedback is
> welcome.
>
> But while I have drastically reduced the amount of bandwidth required to
> display the Sugar interface, I fear I have significantly increased the
> amount of power required for optimal rendering.
>
>
Yes, power consumption has been one of our greatest concerns as the pixel to
semicolon bump causes some serious strain.

The XO tablet's gpu will probably handle this going forward.

http://mediamods.com/sugar/record_ui.html
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