What is ShadowFB?

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 19:36 +0800, Rob Kramer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been googling and source-browsing around, trying to find out what
> exactly the purpose of shadowfb is (with respect to rotation), without much
> success. Can someone tell me if it is documented somewhere?

The shadowfb code is pretty much deprecated at this point.

You should use the newer shadow module in miext/shadow.

Even better still is to use the new RandR code which deals with the
shadow initialisation for you. That's shown in hw/xfree86/modes.

Alan.