New shatter development tree

[Colin Guthrie]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ajax/xserver-shatter/log/?h=shatter-2008
> 
> I'll be pushing updates here as I go.  Conceptual review, particularly
> of the strategy documentation, is most welcome.
> 
> Note that this is an ABI change:
> 
>> @@ -478,8 +493,6 @@ typedef struct _Screen {
>>      CloseScreenProcPtr CloseScreen;
>>      QueryBestSizeProcPtr QueryBestSize;
>>      SaveScreenProcPtr SaveScreen;
>> -    GetImageProcPtr GetImage;
>> -    GetSpansProcPtr GetSpans;
>>      PointerNonInterestBoxProcPtr PointerNonInterestBox;
>>      SourceValidateProcPtr SourceValidate;
> 
> So you will certainly need to rebuild your drivers if you expect to play
> with this.  There's no particularly strong reason for this to be a
> break, I suppose, but we really do have a lot of things that would be
> pleasant to fix with an ABI break (render arg reduction, MAXFORMATS,
> etc.).

Forgive me for being dumb but what is shatter?

I have read about this before but the details are fuzzy :)

Is this something that will allow working around the 2048 DRI limit in 
945GMs or is it related to the dual-GPU stuff that lappy vendors love so 
much these days? (or perhaps even both?)

Col

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