[PATCH] Remove XAA

[Dave Airlie]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.ru> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> I love this. It invalidates some of my outstanding patches in the best
>> possible way. But... could you explain (preferably in the commit
>> message) what evidence you have that "it hasn't worked"? I thought
>> people were still using XAA.
>
> Indeed, I have just now tested XAA vs EXA on the Lemote Yeeloong[1] (siliconmotion).
> In gtkperf, XAA is good 20% faster than EXA here.
> With the removal of XAA, what do you guys suggest us to do?
> "Staying on an old version of Xorg forever" doesn't count as a solution.
> Thanks.

a) use a real benchmark.

b) fix any EXA issues, or move to shadowfb style setup.

Dave.