diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/RELEASE-NOTES.md index c5ba2f41..bffca860 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.md @@ -275,10 +275,11 @@ https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Libdrm is a user-space library implements the Direct Rendering Manager. MiniGUI mainly uses this library to support the dumb frame buffer -(no hardware acceleration). +(no hardware acceleration). However, you can write a driver for your +graphics card or GPU to implement the hardware accelerated features. To avoid modifying the MiniGUI source code when supporting new GPUs, -the `dri` engine has adopted a scalable design. +the `dri` engine has adopted a scalable design: * You can directly use the `dri` engine to run MiniGUI on a GPU which supports dumb frame buffer. @@ -316,10 +317,13 @@ dpi=96 You can use the key `dri.device` to specify your DRI device. +Currently, the `dir` NEWGAL engine does not provide support for MiniGUI-Processes +run-time mode. We will enhance this in the subsequent version of MiniGUI. + Also note that when you use the hardware accelerated sub driver, MiniGUI app may need the root privilege to call `drmSetMaster` to set the video mode. -However, under MiniGUI-Processes run mode, only the server (`mginit`) needs -this privilege. +However, under MiniGUI-Processes run-time mode, only the server (`mginit`) will +need this privilege when you use the future `dri` engine. #### Extra input messages