Is XAA still supported in recent and future xserver?

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Tue Sep 14 11:17:04 PDT 2010


On Die, 2010-09-14 at 12:03 -0600, Matt Dew wrote: 
> 2010/9/14 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> > On Die, 2010-09-14 at 11:49 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >>
> >> Gallium3D is a generic, shader-centric acceleration framework which can
> >> already provide acceleration in the X server via a so-called 'state
> >> tracker' which hooks into EXA.
> >
> > BTW, let me point out that this can already accelerate some things which
> > few if any other free drivers can, namely solid and gradient pictures.
> > Gallium3D should make adding acceleration for trapezoids relatively easy
> > as well.
> >
> 
> I'm definitely not wanting to start an argument here.   I know next to
> nothing and I just want to help improve things.
> 
> Where's a good place to start?  (I'm documenting this so others can benefit)

Please be more specific about what you'd like to achieve.


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