xf86-video-intel 2.5 release planning

[Carl Worth]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 13:38 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:30 pm Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > For me, even on the 2.4 series, EXA is still unusably slow on my i945
> > and compositing. Perhaps I'm missing a setting. It's certainly better
> > than before (it used to crash the server!), but I'm still a little
> > concerned about removing XAA completely (main issue right now is
> > scrolling, but I'll need to read Carl's blog and see what's what!)
> >
> > If EXA really, really does work and has no (massive) regressions on all
> > hardware then great, but is it worth actually *removing* code in this
> > release (i.e. will it hold back/delay other features?)
> 
> This is what I was hoping to hear.  My threat to remove XAA may turn out to be 
> an idle one, but I hope to get people excited enough to flame me, report 
> problems, and hopefully fix them. ;)
> 
> Carl, any thoughts about the scrolling problem?

The *big* performance problem I fixed and mentioned in the blog post was
text rendering on i965. I know that the "EXA is slower than XAA" also
mentioned scrolling as a problem. I haven't looked at that yet, (nor
have I looked at i945 yet), but I hope to be able to soon.

-Carl