rototiller/.git - Collection of software-rendered graphics hacks supporting libdrm and SDL2

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2018-02-20	settings: introduce abstract settings	Vito Caputo
	Settings will be used to express configurable parameters in the rendering modules and fb backends. The goal is to address both commandline argument setting of parameters, automatic use of defaults, as well as interactive configuration including the outputting of the resulting settings in a form usable as a commandline for future reuse. Since settings can be numerous and highly varied from one module or backend to another, a form similar to the Linux kernel's cmdline or QEMU's approach has been adopted. For example, a complete DRM backend, card selection and config would be: rototiller --video=drm,dev=/dev/dri/card0,connector=LVDS-1,mode=1024x768@60 If any of the above were omitted, then the missing settings would be interactively configured. If you added --defaults, then any omissions would be automatically filled in with the defaults. i.e. rototiller --video=drm,dev=/dev/dri/card4 --defaults would use the preferred connector and mode for that card. rototiller --video=drm --defaults would do the same but also default to the /dev/dri/card0 path. for brevity, I omitted rendering modules from above, but the same approach applies simply to --module=: rototiller --module=sparkler --video=drm --defaults If you ran rototiller without any arguments, then a fully interactive setup would ensue for module and video. If you ran rototiller with just --defaults, then everything is defaulted for you. A default rendering module will be used (the original roto renderer, probably). Note that this commit only adds scaffolding to make this possible, none of this is wired up yet.
2018-01-01	drm_fb: implement drm fb backend	Vito Caputo
	Largely mechanical copying of the drm code into the new fb_ops_t abstraction. Dormant for now.
2017-04-22	rototiller: add threaded rendering	Vito Caputo
	This is a simple worker thread implementation derived from the ray_threads code in the ray module. The ray_threads code should be discarded in a future commit now that rototiller can render fragments using threads. If a module supplies a prepare_frame() method, then it is called per-frame to prepare a rototiller_frame_t which specifies how to divvy up the page into fragments. Those fragments are then dispatched to a thread per CPU which call the module's rendering function in parallel. There is no coupling of the number of fragments in a frame to the number of threads/CPUs. Some modules may benefit from the locality of tile-based rendering, so the fragments are simply dispatched across the available CPUs in a striped fashion. Helpers will be added later to the fb interface for tiling fragments, which modules desiring tiled rendering may utilize in their prepare_frame() methods. This commit does not modify any modules to become threaded, it only adds the scaffolding.
2017-02-12	julia: add a morphing Julia set renderer	Vito Caputo
	This is unoptimized, with a palette slapped together in vim, but still pretty neat!
2017-02-07	plasma: add a plasma renderer	Vito Caputo

2017-01-18	*: move source into src/ subdir	Vito Caputo
	Restoring some organizational sanity since adopting autotools.