More feedback from Intel RC: EXA crashes fixed

[Wang Zhenyu]

On 2007.04.20 09:08:07 +0000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> I've done some more testing of the latest git sources of the Intel 
> driver with our I845G graphics chips.
> 
> EXA now works without crashing in all my testing :) Great work.
> 
> Things which previously didn't work:
> 
> - opening many applications, including gecko-based things
> - running xcompmgr
> - switching Enlightenment-0.17 to the XRENDER backend
> 
> All of these things now work. Unfortunately they all run slower ( 
> considerably ) than XAA. In particular, E17 animations ( eg animated 
> backgrounds ) drop frames far more than with the software engine. In 
> previous testing on an r200 card with EXA ( just before the modular X 
> release ), I was getting 2 - 3 times *better* performance doing the same 
> testing with EXA & XRENDER vs XAA & software.
> 
> Anyway, as usual ... not complaining ... just reporting :)
> 
yeah, the performance is not good now, and for 830/845G we have to even 
fallback for pict format a8,xr8g8b8,xb8g8r8 as hw doesn't support them. 
Thanks for testing it! I will do more debug.