[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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