Xegl lives!

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue May 24 17:52:30 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 24 May 2005 15:47, Adam Jackson wrote:
> It is vastly simpler to bring up a kdrive-esque driver with decent Render
> accel than it is to bring up a DRI driver.  There are at least 20 distinct
> chipsets where we have no DRI driver, with the degree of difficulty in
> adding support ranging from "poke registers and hope" up through "fully
> documented". [1]  You could spend two days adding Render accel in a classic
> DDX, or two months bringing up a DRI driver.

[1] - And I'd be more than happy to tell anyone who's interested in working on 
them exactly what those chips are, where to find the docs, and how difficult 
they'd be to do, but this is ranging even further off topic.

- ajax
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