Intel framebuffer compression & tiling update

[Lukas Hejtmanek]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:15:25PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> We've made some recent changes in the Intel git tree, enabling both 
> tiled rendering for the front buffer by default, and framebuffer 
> compression by default where available (currently, framebuffer 
> compression is only available on mobile devices, e.g. 915GM, 965GM).
> 
> Tiled frontbuffer rendering should bring us some modest performance 
> increases for certain operations (render acceleration specifically) 
> though I haven't done any measurements on it.

Cool, glad to hear that. However, you should consider to commit the following
patch to make tiling working with XAA.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-August/027143.html

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Lukáš Hejtmánek