Xorg 7.0-rc1 and EXA (radeon 9200)

[Dave Airlie]

> >
> > But it's better to hurt X server performance by requiring up to 6 ioctls
> > per software fallback to allocate and free virtual surfaces? I wonder
> > how much time a typical user spends using X vs. GL.
> >
>
> I think you're making a mistake here. It's not about trying to
> prioritize one over the other, but trying to get both cooperate.
> As you probably now, this is major pain for radeon dri developers,
> since the radeon ddx assumes in lots of places that it's the only one
> in the world and takes no care when overwriting stuff.
>

I talked to Ben about this before and I suggested he just save the
current surface registers, use them and restore them, X is currently
taking the DRM lock so its not as if anyone else can do anything...

Dave.