EXA

[Dave Airlie]

On 8/1/07, Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman at ics.muni.cz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:56:56PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > EXA can only accelerate when all pixmaps are 'offscreen' - are you
> > emulating an offscreen area large enough to store your pixmaps or
> > providing an appropriate IsOffscreen driver hook?
>
> is this limitation bound to the current state of EXA implementation or is this
> somewhat design concept?
>
> For example, for Intel integrated graphics cards, it should be possible to
> accelerate even non-offscreen pixmaps.

You still have all sorts of alignment issues and fun to deal with, so
you cannot just accelerate any pixmap anywhere in memory..

Dave.