Re: [PATCH] GSoC #09 Bitmap scaling

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> It is really necessary that all generic graphical menu code like bitmap
> scaler works always. Not just for some optimized formats as otherwise it
> would render graphical menu unusable in some cases. It can be not so
> pretty on low end systems, but it should at least work. That is the
> reason there is map/unmap functions in video api.
> 
> So there has to be first generic implementation and then you can use
> optimized one if there exist one.

Just thinking as this is operating in a bitmap, we could just make sure
we use only couple of formats and let video driver dot the rest. That
would simplify it a bit.