[cairo] Using the span renderer to push spans to an FPGA?

[Jeff Muizelaar]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:58:01PM +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> my current cairo backend is the image backend, which copies images
> line-by-line to an FPGA for display.
> 
> As we have control over the FPGA, I wondered if the span renderer be
> exploited to send spans to the FPGA, instead of the raw image data?

This would certainly be possible. The following tree draws spans directly using gl.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~anholt/cairo/log/?h=gl-span-renderer

-Jeff