[Intel-gfx] Xv on Sandybridge

[Xiang, Haihao]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:31 +0800, Chris Wilson wrote: 
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:55:40 +0800, "Xiang, Haihao" <haihao.xiang at intel.com> wrote:
> > Here is the set of patches to enable texture adaptor on Sandybridge. 
> > Currently you need to turn off shadow in /etc/xorg.conf to use texture
> > video on Sandybridge
> 
> So the remaining issue is mixing the TexturedAdaptor with shadow, which
> requires some similar trickery as dri2 in order to render directly to the
> front-buffer?
Currently we are adding support for 2D HW acceleration (BLT + composite) on Sandybridge. 
Once it is done, we can disable shadow by default on Sandybridge. 

As for TexturedAdaptor+shadow, we may add support for it if we have
time.

Thanks
Haihao

> Or perhaps a better pixmap migration to supersede shadow, which is coming
> along but a much larger task. So back to the hacks for the short term.
> -Chris
>