Enhancements for Render composite request

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:13 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: 
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 19:51 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > But RENDER is the wrong place for this.
> 
> The X server has to offer these operations anyway as it is responsible
> for DRI2 swapping,

The way this is currently done with DRI2 is an implementation detail and
clearly sub-optimal in some cases. It's a bad idea to encode these
semantics in a rendering API.

> and there are non-GL applications which would like to have reasonable
> display support (including simple compositing managers).
> 
> Where would you like to see this operation if not in Render?

An extension which deals with synchronization, as opposed to rendering.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                http://www.vmware.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer