Gabriel Wang

Please let the Pico team concentrate on what they should do. They don't have sufficient resources to add support for MDK. For MDK support, please try this one: https://github.com/GorgonMeducer/Pico_Template

@kisvegabor Oh my god... I just finished adding A2 and A4 support to arm-2d... and Helium is capable of accelerating them. I know some 2D GPUs support A2 and A4...

@kisvegabor The key benefit of A2 and A4 is size. A4 has almost the identical visual effects as A8 but only takes half of the ROM. But on the other...

> choose the "continuous format" to save some space in case of smaller fonts. This makes A2 and A4 hardware acceleration very hard, and to be honest, the bytes saved...

@puzrin A3 is not MCU friendly. But if you propose to keep it, then could you please also add a non-continuous mode for the font-convertor? A fixed pitch number can...

> Probably the built-in engine will convert the A2/A3/A4 bitmaps into a temporary buffer (maybe using the lookup table I described above). That's the current implementation: https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/blob/389d15be3d950d702b86c5a90b5bead862ea0f5e/src/draw/sw/lv_draw_sw_letter.c#L49-L78

## Proposal 1: task and task-group ## ### Background ### The capability of PE (i.e. 2D GPU, 2D capable DMA, CPU etc) are different: some as powerful as 2D GPU...

> How the drawing tasks are built up? It's very important to clarify what "mask" means. I'm planning to rework masking for v9 so it's a great time to figure...

> fill with gradient: Is it a special fill, or something needs to calculate the gradient and pass it as small rectangles or an image? See what I said: >...

> To have a more complete list I see these tasks types (all can have opa and/or mask): We will definitely finish this list, but it is not now. I...