radeon tiling again...

Roland Scheidegger rscheidegger_lists at hispeed.ch
Sun Jan 23 11:16:58 PST 2005


Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 02:48 +0100, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> 
>>You're right though it might not be a very good idea to support depth
>>moves corretly only sometimes. Guess it would in fact be better to not
>>support them at all, Keith seemed to be perfectly happy with that
>>solution. Will remove them.
> 
> 
> That, or at least don't allow enabling them if tiling is disabled. Maybe
> they would be useful if done by the engine instead of the CPU?
I've thought about that, but I see no way how to do that. A blit would 
certainly be a _lot_ faster, but the radeon blitter can't tile/untile 
the depth pattern, only the color pattern. Or, if it could do it, at 
least I don't know how...

Roland



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