[Mesa-dev] A gallium XA state tracker

[Thomas Hellstrom]

On 06/15/2011 11:42 AM, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 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
>
>    
Yes, you're correct.

Thomas