NOTE: This blog gives a "behind the scenes look" at the progress of the RadeonHD driver's development. As such, its contents reflect the state of the development version of the driver, and not the state of the publicly released version.
Hardware Accelerated Mouse Pointer (a.k.a. Sprite)
Posted by Hans de Ruiter
The mouse pointer now uses the Radeon card's sprite hardware. The graphics card documentation calls it "Cursor," which matches the X-windows terminology. This was a fairly straightforward task, with just a few issues such as ARGB vs. RGBA pixel formats, and alpha-channel blending modes.
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