[Mesa-dev] A gallium XA state tracker
Keith Whitwell
keithw at vmware.com
Wed Jun 15 02:42:06 PDT 2011
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 11:29 +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just pushed an initial commit of an X Acceleration state tracker to
> the xa_branch.
>
> The idea is that in the long run it will be replacing the Xorg state
> tracker, which can then move back to a modular xf86-video-modesetting.
> It will also be responsible for the acceleration part of an updated
> vmwgfx X driver
>
> From the README:
>
> 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The XA state tracker is intended as a versioned interface to gallium for
> xorg driver writers. Initially it's mostly based on Zack Rusin's
> composite / video work for the Xorg state tracker.
>
> The motivation behind this state tracker is that the Xorg state tracker has
> a number of interfaces to work with:
>
> 1) The Xorg sdk (versioned)
> 2) Gallium3D (not versioned)
> 3) KMS modesetting (versioned)
> 4) Driver-private (hopefully versioned)
>
> Since Gallium3D is versioned, the Xorg state tracker needs to be compiled
Hi Thomas! Is there a missing "not" before versioned in the above
sentence?
Keith
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